A new national plant protection laboratory for the safe study of particularly harmful pests and pathogens

Insects, fungi or nematodes that pose a threat to our trees and plants can now be studied in Switzerland more safely than ever before, thanks to the new Swiss Plant Protection Laboratory at the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL). The new facility in Birmensdorf has been officially opened on 20 October 2014 by Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann. The WSL, which is responsible for the diagnostic of forest pests and pathogens for the Swiss plant protection service, built the Security Level 3 laboratory together with the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG).

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