Legislators tour the Diagnostic Laboratory

Donald Lein, right, director of the New York State Diagnostic Laboratory in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, leads a tour of the lab for members of the State Assembly, July 20, including, from left, William Magee (D-111th Dist.), chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee, and Margaret Markey (D-30th Dist.), a member of the Assembly's Consumer Affairs and Agriculture committees. The lawmakers were attending a roundtable, sponsored by the Agriculture Committee and the Assembly Task Force on Food, Farm and Nutrition Policy, on the laboratory's role in the prevention, control and eradication of livestock diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and foot-and-mouth disease. Nicola Kountoupes/University Photography