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Welcome to
Farm Animal Diagnostics

Axiom has been running a dedicated farm animal diagnostics service since December 2013, offering a comprehensive ‘one stop shop’ for all your farm animal diagnostics needs. We take pride in providing the highest quality advice, testing and results for you and your clients.

Why Choose Axiom
Our Advantages

Axiom Pathologists offers a broad range of farm services and additional support services

A quality focused service, which is subject to regular external audits and continually monitored through numerous external quality assessment schemes. The tests we offer and methodologies used are under constant review, to bring you the highest level of service provision.

We are accredited by UKAS to the internationally recognised BS EN ISO/ IEC 17025:2017 standard for laboratory competence.

For full details of accredited tests please visit: UKAS

Opinions and interpretations, where included on reports, are outside the scope of UKAS accreditation.

All farm veterinary advisors and histopathologists have previously worked as VIOs at APHA, SAC or one of APHA’s external post mortem providers.

Our veterinary team are readily available to take your calls between 9 am and 5:30 pm Monday to Friday and between 9 am and 12 noon on Saturday.

Every case is reviewed by our veterinary team.

Our experienced veterinary advisors and histopathologists add considerable value to reports in terms of differential diagnoses and advice on further testing.

As ex VIOs, all vets are experienced in post mortem examination and can provide advice on differential diagnoses, gross pathology and ancillary testing.

Same working day for trace elements and many other biochemistry profiles and tests.

One working day for parasitology.

Three working days for histopathology.

Serology tests are run at least weekly and Johne’s serology, Border disease serology, BVD serology and BVD antigen ELISA are run at least twice weekly.

On Saturday mornings, urgent biochemistry is run and reported, cultures are set up, plates are read and culture results are reported.

Contact us to see if your practice can be added to one of our courier routes (01626 357776).

Our dedicated courier service provides traceability and ensures samples are reliably delivered to the laboratory.

Where practices are not on a courier route, prepaid envelopes are provided.

Dedicated team with specific knowledge of farm animal diagnostic testing.

Direct dial phone number: 01626 357776.

Monthly newsletters summarising key messages on testing and interesting diagnoses made.

Information sheets are regularly written on clinical and pathological sampling and testing.

Contact us

Phone: 01626 357776
Email: dsfarm@axiomvetlab.co.uk