SVA - National Veterinary Institute (Statens Veterinärmedicinska Anstalt)

The National Veterinary Institute, SVA, is a Swedish national authority that strives for good animal and human health, a good environment and sustainable food production.

We are being exposed to increasing demands that livestock production is done under ethically acceptable conditions and that foodstuffs are produced from healthy animals free from contagious agents, growth hormones, pharmaceutical residues and other alien substances. 

The most important role of the National Veterinary Institute, SVA, is to align the activities towards contagious and other serious infectious diseases of animals that imply a threat to supplies of animal foodstuffs, that lead to losses for the production of animals, that concern pets, or involve diseases that can be transferred to humans, i.e., zoonoses.

Diagnostic capacity for the most feared contagious animal diseases is available at SVA. At present about 25 control programmes are being conducted in cooperation with animal owner organisations and the relevant authorities.