3 Pa.C.S. § 2304: Diagnostic services and research.

The department may establish, maintain or fund, to the extent that funding is available, such domestic animal disease diagnostic services and research activities as are required to prevent, suppress, control and eradicate transmissible diseases of domestic animals, to protect the safety, quality and sufficiency of the human food supply and to provide domestic animal producers information necessary for efficient production and maintenance of healthy domestic animals.