Testing labs in Reus

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by ENAC (No. LE2741) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Located at CALLE DOCTOR DOMENECH nº1, 43203, Reus, Spain. Official accreditation scope: https://www.enac.es/documents/7020/7d7d064a-c457-4de3-ae74-76a6b5e036a2

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by ENAC (No. LE1448) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Accredited test areas include: Bio Food Safety; Food Microbiology. Located at 43206, Reus, Spain.

CESAC (Centre de Sanitat Avícola de Catalunya i Aragó / Centro de Sanidad Avícola de Aragón y Cataluña — the Poultry Health Centre of Catalonia and Aragon) is a specialized veterinary diagnostic laboratory and technical services organization headquartered in Reus, Tarragona, Spain. Founded through collaboration between the regional administrations of Catalonia and Aragon, the private sector, and the cooperative poultry farming sector — including the Federació Avícola Catalana (FAC) and Avicultures Aragó (AVIAR) — CESAC serves as the primary animal health reference laboratory for the poultry industry across these two autonomous communities. Its clients include poultry producers, flock veterinarians, integrators, cooperatives, and public authorities responsible for disease surveillance and official control programs in commercial and game-bird flocks. At the core of CESAC's mandate is diagnostic testing for avian diseases, covering both routine health monitoring and official governmental disease control programs. The laboratory performs isolation and identification of poultry pathogens using officially recognized techniques. Key analytical targets include Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter spp. — the two most regulated food-safety pathogens in poultry — for which CESAC conducts official analyses under Catalonia's mandatory monitoring and control programs, including the autocontrol sampling programs required by EU and Spanish law for flocks entering the human food chain. Beyond bacterial food-safety pathogens, CESAC's diagnostic portfolio encompasses a broad range of economically and epidemiologically significant avian viral and bacterial diseases. The laboratory tests for Newcastle disease virus (NDV), Avian Influenza virus (AIV), Infectious Bronchitis virus (IBV), Gumboro disease (Infectious Bursal Disease virus, IBDV), and Mycoplasmosis caused principally by Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae. Many of these are subject to mandatory EU and national surveillance programs. CESAC's methodologies incorporate classical bacteriological culture, serological assays, and molecular techniques including PCR and real-time PCR, enabling sensitive and rapid detection and confirmation of pathogens in line with official reference protocols. Diagnostic services span the full range of commercial and semi-commercial poultry species: broiler chickens, laying hens, breeding and parent flocks, turkeys, quails, and partridges, including game birds (aus cinegètiques). Sample types accepted include cloacal and tracheal swabs, post-mortem tissue specimens (intestine, liver, spleen, reproductive organs), blood for serological profiling, environmental samples such as dust, drag swabs and boot swabs, water, feed, and eggs. Dedicated sample submission forms (fulls d'entrada de mostres) are available for routine diagnostics, for official Salmonella autocontrol programs, and for game-bird submissions, ensuring chain-of-custody integrity and full regulatory traceability for all incoming material. The CESAC laboratory holds ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation granted by ENAC (Entitat Nacional d'Acreditació), Spain's national accreditation body, whose recognition extends to over 100 countries through multilateral agreements with EA, ILAC, and IAF. The accreditation scope specifically covers diagnostic assays in animal health (Realització d'Assaigs de Diagnòstic en Sanitat Animal — Performance of Diagnostic Tests in Animal Health). This accreditation demonstrates that CESAC's personnel qualifications, equipment calibration, method validation, measurement uncertainty estimations, and result reporting all conform to the internationally recognized UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard for technical laboratory competence and impartiality. CESAC holds a formal official designation from the Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Natural of the Generalitat de Catalunya as the laboratory responsible for conducting official analyses for diseases included in Catalonia's mandatory poultry health programs. This governmental designation makes CESAC the legally recognized reference point for official disease status determinations, compliance attestations for intra-community trade, and regulatory certification under EU and Spanish national poultry health legislation. The laboratory also issues Sanitary Movement Certificates (Certificats Sanitaris de Moviment), which document the health status of flocks for livestock movement control — a critical function supporting biosecurity and disease traceability across the supply chain. Beyond core diagnostics, CESAC provides a broad suite of technical support to the sector. The centre delivers training (formació) for farm veterinarians and farmers covering disease prevention, biosecurity protocols, sampling methodology, and regulatory compliance requirements. CESAC also administers livestock movement records (gestió del moviment pecuari), an essential regulatory function for animal tracing. CESAC has participated in European-level biosecurity research through the NetPoulSafe consortium (EU H2020), a seven-country multinational project studying biosecurity compliance in poultry production. Clients access laboratory results and movement certificates digitally through dedicated online portals, streamlining official reporting and compliance documentation. CESAC is located at Av. Castellvell, 32, 43206 Reus (Tarragona), with facilities dedicated to microbiology, virology, serology, and molecular diagnostics. As the institutional cornerstone of poultry animal health for Catalonia and Aragon — combining a formal public-sector official designation, ENAC-accredited ISO/IEC 17025 status, active participation in European research networks, and deep sector-specific expertise — CESAC represents the authoritative and credible diagnostic partner for any organization operating within the poultry production, food-safety, or avian disease surveillance chain in northeastern Spain and across the wider Iberian poultry industry.

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by ENAC (No. LE1743) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Accredited test areas include: Bio Biocompatibility; Calibration Electrical; Calibration Temperature Pressure; Chemical Spectroscopy; Water Drinking; Water Environmental; Water Legionella; Water Wastewater. Located at 43206, Reus, Spain.

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by ENAC (No. LE2655) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Accredited test areas include: Water Legionella. Located at 43206, Reus, Spain.

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by ENAC (No. LE2973) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Located at 43204, Reus, Spain.