Research Associates Laboratory

03/07/2025

Precision, accuracy, the fastest turnarounds available. Trusted partners throughout many industries. Decades of experience at your fingertips. Please let us know how we can help you. Vetdna.com. Reach out via email at raldnalab@gmail.com.

01/08/2025

We appologize for all overnight shipments from ups/fedex/usps that failed to update tracking. As a recipient we have little to no control over the situation. We will do our best to reach out to all inbound customers and process time dependent samples asap🥰

12/22/2024

Please be aware of difficulties with shipping over the holiday season. We will do our best to accommodate everyone, but we do not suggest shipping time dependent samples during the Christmas and New Year holiday season.

11/12/2024

RAL is always proud to support our friends in their mission to provide top quality animals. We support our friends at Josh's Frogs during this difficult time and will continue to provide top notch validated diagnostic services with industry leading turn around times. Having worked internationally with the Diane Fossey gorilla fund in Rwanda, we continue our research in conjunction with academic institutions through data sharing and commitment to communication and collaboration. Together we can advance exotic husbandry 🥰

MESSAGE FROM JOSH:
During a routine, random chytrid test, we found some animals that tested positive. If you aren't randomly testing your collection, you need to. We never had any animals showing any symptoms. Without random tests, we never would have found it. Plants, insects, and dry goods are not affected by chyrtid.

Through hundreds of tests, we were able to trace the spread to a group of frogs we received back from an institution that had the animals on loan over the summer. While these animals were in quarantine we had two biosecurity breaches involving these animals. The first was a pixie frog that popped out of his container upon coming into our building. The second breach from that group of frogs happened when two bins were accidentally cleared with another group of frogs in quarantine and subsequently moved out of quarantine with that group.

We have been working closely with researchers at various institutions as well as staff at RAL. Due to how easily chytrid can spread, we are currently treating our entire collection. After treatment, the current standard is two negative tests 7 days apart. It's a long process. We are working with others who are producing animals to help connect customers with quality amphibians.

To say that this has been stressful work for our keepers is an extreme understatement. If you know any of them personally, please reach out and encourage them. They would appreciate it, as would I.

I want to say thank you to everybody that reached out so far with encouragement. It means the world to me and our people. On the other side of this, we will have a lot of data to dump on the hobby. Our hope is that our pain and transparency will highlight responsible keeping and biosecurity in our hobby, and help create a healthier trade.

09/25/2024

Pretty good day for a Tuesday. Test your collections! Safe keeping. Just say no to Crypto/Nido/IBD. 🥰

08/25/2024

Ready to see everyone at the AEMV & ARAV joint conference! Come say hi and let us know how we can help make your practice even better.

08/19/2024

Another awesome show. See ya soon in New Orleans 🥰

03/01/2024

New poultry tests available. Flock health testing with our proven industry leading same day results. Testing performed everyday. Your only source for direct submission confidential backyard flock health testing.

02/21/2024

Happy National Pet Day

02/17/2024

New Email based payment is now available. No need to provide any credit card info on the submission form. Simply check your provided email. You’ll know your samples are ready to process, and that they’ll be ready to report by 5pm central time once payment is received. Increased security is our priority.