{"id":223023,"date":"2025-10-18T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223023\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:40:09","slug":"province-to-launch-new-plant-animal-health-centre-in-abbotsford-fraser-valley-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223023\/","title":{"rendered":"Province to launch new plant, animal health centre in Abbotsford | Fraser Valley Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6149019f-50cc-4d97-a178-8107343f8498.png\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image: Google Maps \/ Abbotsford is set to receive a new plant and animal health centre in 2032 after the current centre (pictured) was damaged in the 2021 floods.<\/p>\n<p>By Alyssa Conti<\/p>\n<p>NEW TEST SITE<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 18, 2025 | 1:01 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>ABBOTSFORD \u2014 The B.C. government is building a new plant and animal health centre to combat farm-based diseases in Abbotsford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cB.C. farmers, producers and processors rely on fast, accurate testing to keep their animals healthy and their operations running smoothly,\u201d said Lana Popham, minister of agriculture and food. \u201cThis new centre will help producers prevent and respond to disease threats, protect our food supply and support public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new centre will be located next to UFV\u2019s Abbotsford campus, just off Highway 1, to replace the 30-year-old centre.<\/p>\n<p>The current centre handles over 10,000 cases and 100,000 tests annually from farmers and organizations to detect and prevent diseases like avian flu, West Nile virus and chronic wasting disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Google Maps \/ Abbotsford is set to receive a new plant and animal health centre in 2032&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,44937,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-223023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chilliwack-news-fraser-valley-abbotsford-weather-traffic-lower-mainland-fvt","11":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}