We Serve...

The Animal Health Laboratory (AHL) is a unit of the Laboratory Services Division which complements the regulatory and analytical testing carried out by the Division. We serve a large community encompassing veterinarians, government, universities, industry and more.

The AHL is a full-service veterinary diagnostic lab with an extensive cadre of laboratorians with post-graduate training and specialty board certification. The AHL provides a single source of laboratory services in the field of animal health, encompassing both food-producing and companion animals

We Serve... Veterinarians

Friendly client service technicians and veterinarians are at your service. The AHL provides specialized diagnostic services to support the veterinarian, our primary client.

Animal owners - If you have questions about interpretation of your AHL report, or require treatment or health management information, please contact your veterinarian.

v If you are an animal owner in need of help, your veterinarian is welcome to call us.

v Your own veterinarian is best placed to give you specific information about prevention, treatment, and control of disease.

For a listing of our testing services, please click here. To access the Fee Schedule with pricing, you must log-in here.

If you have any questions, please either email us or phone us at 519 824-4120 ext 54320.

We Serve... Government

AHL monitors trends in existing diseases and because of the AHL's careful eye, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) is able to respond rapidly and efficiently to health threats to the livestock and poultry industries.

As a partner with OMAFRA in the Ontario Animal Health Surveillance Network (OAHSN), the AHL contributes to maintaining healthy animals and safe food in Ontario. By providing information on disease trends, policy or decision makers have information readily available to perform risk assessments, to evaluate control strategies, to identify research needs, and facilitate planning.

The AHL also plays an important role in public health by identifying pathogens common to animals and people. Individuals who submitted animals with zoonotic diseases are informed of the health hazard, and trends in the frequency of these pathogens (e.g., rabies, Salmonella sp., tuberculosis, etc) in the province are identified and communicated.

We Serve... Universities

We're here to help you get you the results you seek. The AHL offers a wide spectrum of routine and specialized testing in support of research projects. We’re happy to assist you with your research testing needs through service quotations, customized submission forms, and remote data entry training. In addition, AHL specialists may be consulted on the setup of testing protocols, and may become involved in research projects as co-investigators or collaborators.

To request a formal quote to start your research testing, please fill out this form: Contract Checklist for services at the AHL.

If you have any questions, please either email us or phone us at 519 824-4120 ext 54320.

We Serve... Industry

Our primary contacts in industry are veterinarians in the food production system, including corporate agriculture and hatcheries. Testing and consultative services available through the AHL support the production of healthy animals and nutritious food.

We offer a broad spectrum of both routine and specialized testing for all animal species, including the whole range of tests from gross pathology right through to microbial gene sequencing.

If you have any questions, please either email us or phone us at 519 824-4120 ext 54320.