Integrated Consortium of Laboratory Networks

Overview
The Integrated Consortium of Laboratory Networks (ICLN) is a coordinated and operational system of laboratory networks that is designed to provide timely, high-quality, and interpretable results for early detection of acts of terrorism and other events that require integrated laboratory-response capabilities. The ICLN’s individual laboratory networks focus on detecting biological threat agents that affect humans, animals, or plants and that contaminate the air, water, or food supply.

The laboratory networks that constitute the ICLN are: Laboratory Response Network (LRN); NAHLN; U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and NIFA’s National Plant Diagnostic Network; U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service and Department of Health and Human Services’s Food and Drug Administration’s Food Emergency Response Network (FERN); and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Response Laboratory Network (ERLN).

Source

 * Biosurveillance: Nonfederal Capabilities Should Be Considered in Creating a National Biosurveillance Strategy, at 62.