Your longtime family pet suddenly passes away. Your family is devastated at the loss. You wonder if the cause of death was from natural causes or if foul play was involved. If only you knew how to find out for sure. Next scenario. A farmer owns several hundred heads of cattle. One day he goes out and finds one of them has died. The next day he finds another one dead. At this point he needs to find out what is causing his cattle to die, and to stop it from spreading to the rest of his heard. For both of these cases, the owner can take the animal to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Laboratory Services. For a fee, they can perform a necropsy on the animal to determine the cause of death. (A Necropsy is equivalent to a human autopsy). In the Shenandoah Valley, the nearest Laboratory Services office is at the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services building at 261 Mt. Clinton Pike in Harrisonburg Va Phone: (540) 209-9130.
There are a total of five Laboratory Services offices in the state:
Harrisonburg Laboratory
261 Mount Clinton Pike
Harrisonburg, VA 22802
Phone: (540) 209-9130 Fax: 540.432.1195
Ivor Laboratory
34591 General Mahone Boulevard
Ivor, VA 23866
Phone: 757.859.6221 Fax: 757.859.6428
Lynchburg Laboratory
4832 Tyreeanna Road
Lynchburg, VA 24504
Phone: 434.200.9988 Fax: 434.947.2577
Warrenton Laboratory
272 Academy Hill Road
Warrenton, VA 20186
Phone: 540.316.6543 Fax: 540.347.6404
Wytheville Laboratory
250 Cassell Road
Wytheville, VA 24382
Phone: 276.228.5501 Fax: 276.223.1961
