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NVAP Reference Guide: Appendix E:

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Preface

Introduction

Control and Eradication

Brucellosis

Johne’s Disease

Pseudorabies (PRV)

Tuberculosis

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

Scrapie

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Poultry

National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP)

Avian Influenza (AI)

Exotic Newcastle disease (END)

Equine Disease

Aquatic Animal

Aquatic Animal National Health Plan

Aquatic Animal Health Activities

Animal Health Emergency Management

Animal Health Emergency Management

Emergency Response Structure

National Response Framework (NRF)

National Incident Management System (NIMS)

National Animal Health Emergency Management System (NAHEMS)

Foreign Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Plan (FAD PReP)

FAD Recognition and Initial Response

National Animal Health Emergency Response Corps (NAHERC)

Notifiable Diseases and Conditions

WOAH and International Standards

Cleaning and Disinfection

Importance of Cleaning & Disinfection

Cleaning

Disinfection

Regulation of Disinfectants

Safety

Disease Surveillance

Laboratory Submissions

Animal Movement

Interstate Regulations

Interstate Movement of Cattle, Horses, Swine, Sheep and Goats

Issuing Interstate Animal Movement Documents

International Animal Movement
Issuing International Health Certificates (IHCs) for Live Animal Movement

Common Problems Observed on Certificates for Live Animal Movement

Animal Identification 

Animal Identification

Cattle Identification

Swine Identification

Equine Identification

Sheep and Goat Identification

Fowl Identification

Compliance and Regulations

Appendix

A: 9 CFR PARTS 160, 161, and 162

B: APHIS VS District Offices

C: State Animal Health Officials

D: Forms

E: Other Organizational Information with Contact Points

F: Web Sites

G: Equine Teeth and Aging

Through its National Import Export Service (NIES), VS facilitates the domestic and

international marketability of U.S. animals and animal products. The growing interest

in agricultural trade in the global market has expanded VS’ role to include ensuring

the creation of new trade opportunities while continuing to safeguard the nation’s

animal health. 

Under the World Trade Organization (WTO), Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS)

Agreement, countries are required to formulate their sanitary import measures on

science-based principles and guidelines. The WTO recognizes the World Organization

for Animal Health (formerly the Office of International Epizooties) (OIE) as the

international forum for setting animal health standards, reporting global animal

events and disease status, and presenting guidelines and recommendations on

sanitary measures relating to animal health. 

OIE and International Standards
The OIE was established in Paris, France, in 1924 with the signing of an international

agreement by 28 countries. As of March 2011, the organization had 178 Members,

each of whom is represented by a delegate who, in most cases, is the country's chief

veterinary officer. The mission of the OIE is to prevent the spread of animal

diseases. To achieve this mission, OIE has three primary functions: (1) to collect and

disseminate information on the distribution and occurrence of animal diseases, (2) to

coordinate research on contagious animal diseases, and (3) to develop international

standards for the safe movement of animals and animal products in international

trade. 

In recent years, the mandate of the OIE has expanded to include animal welfare,

food production and food safety, and the strengthening of veterinary services.

Within VS, four major program areas interact directly with the OIE: (1) NIES’s

International Animal Health Standards Services (IAHSS), (2) the National Veterinary

Services Laboratories (NVSL), (3) the Centers of Veterinary Biologics (CVB), and (4)

the Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH). 

NIES’s International Animal Health Standards

Services

Guides the development of sound international health standards for safe

trading in animals and animal products by coordinating consensus-based

comments on proposed modifications to chapters of the OIE Terrestrial and

Aquatic Animal Health Codes.

Maintains a database of disease and subject matter experts to review specific

code chapters.

Monitors and evaluates reports and scientific data produced by the OIE.

Compiles the Annual Tabular and Narrative Disease Reports on Member

Countries' World Animal Health Status and submits monthly disease reports.

Coordinates import and export efforts to address the international movement of

livestock, biological products, and animal products and provides

recommendations on health conditions related to the movement of animals and

animal products.

Prepares agendas, briefs, and trade-issue analyses for the delegates attending

the Quadrilateral Animal Health Committee Meeting (Australia, Canada, New

Zealand, and the United States), the North American Animal Health Committee
Meeting (Canada, Mexico, and the United States), and the OIE annual General

Session.

Recommends changes to address trade issues effectively and align USDA

standards and policies with international standards.

Represents the Deputy Administrator and the Department of Agriculture at

meetings with international officials as well as with livestock and poultry

industry representatives.

Contact Point for the International Animal Health Standards

Services

National Center for Import and Export International Animal Health Standards

Services USDA–APHIS–VS

4700 River Rd., Unit 33

Riverdale, MD 20737–1231

Tel: (301) 734–5324

Fax: (301) 734–8818

e-mail: usa.oie@aphis.usda.gov

CEAH: An OIE Collaborating Center

As an OIE collaborating center, CEAH shares its risk analysis and disease

surveillance expertise with member countries. It provides them with technical

assistance and expert advice on disease surveillance and control and risk analysis.

As a collaborating center, CEAH fulfills the following objectives:

Reviews, evaluates, and adapts methodologies and approaches to enhance

animal disease surveillance systems and the risk analysis process.

Promotes a harmonized approach to disease surveillance and risk analysis.

Provides technical assistance to OIE member countries as needed.

Improves the quality of animal disease surveillance and risk analysis by

establishing a critical mass of trained individuals in OIE member countries.

Networks with other OIE collaborating centers to coordinate activities.

Contact Point for CEAH
Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health USDA–APHIS–VS

2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. B Fort Collins, CO 80526 Tel: (970) 494–7200

Fax: (970) 472–2668

e-mail: ceah@aphis.usda.gov

Center for the Diagnosis of Animal Diseases and

Vaccine Evaluation for the Americas: An OIE

Collaborating Center

The Center for the Diagnosis of Animal Diseases and Vaccine Evaluation for the

Americas consists of three components:

The National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL)

The Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB)

The Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB).

NVSL

NVSL are full-service laboratories with expertise in all diagnostic tests for significant

animal diseases found in the Americas. These laboratories are committed to sharing

and harmonizing these procedures with other countries in the Americas. The NVSL

supports the OIE by

Providing diagnostic assistance such as agent isolation and characterization;

Supplying reference reagents to other laboratories, which can be used to

standardize testing or for routine diagnosis;

Evaluating diagnostic reagents used by other countries and exchanging sera to

standardize and harmonize testing;

Providing training in the diagnostic tests that they perform

Consulting on a wide range of techniques; and

Conducting developmental projects to improve diagnostic techniques for

diseases of significance in the Americas.
Contact point for NVSL/ National Veterinary Services

Laboratories

USDA–APHIS–VS

1920 Dayton Ave

P.O. Box 844

Ames, IA 50010

Tel: (515) 337–7266

Fax: (515) 337–7397

e-mail: NVSL_Concerns@usda.gov

CVB

CVB is the sole confirmatory and investigatory testing laboratory involved in

regulation of commercial veterinary biologics (vaccines and diagnostic kits) in the

United States. CVB supports OIE by

Developing, distributing, and using worldwide standard protocols for biologics

evaluation and training scientists from throughout the world in these protocols;

Validating and providing standard reagents to biologics manufacturers and

regulatory laboratories worldwide;

Conducting developmental projects to improve biological techniques for

diseases of significance in the Americas;

Reviewing, developing, comparing, and harmonizing testing protocols in

collaboration with industry and other Government laboratories and

Hosting scientific meetings in the area of veterinary biologics.

Contact point for CVB/ Center for Veterinary Biologics

USDA–APHIS–VS

1920 Dayton Ave

PO Box 844

Ames, IA 50010

Tel: (515) 337–7331

Fax: (515) 337–7397
e-mail: cvb@aphis.usda.gov

IICAB

IICAB is based at Iowa State University and concentrates its efforts on educating and

implementing international communication and harmonization activities related to

the availability, safety, and efficacy veterinary biologics. IICAB supports OIE by

Offering training on scientific principles behind vaccine safety and efficacy;

Working with other international organizations to harmonize regulations for

veterinary biologics in the Americas;

Assisting developing countries to obtain veterinary biologics for specific unmet

needs and in their efforts to manufacture, import, and regulate veterinary

biologics and diagnostics; and

Organizing scientific meetings and serving as an international resource for

information on the use of veterinary biologics.

Contact point for IICAB/ Institute for International

Cooperation in Animal Biologics

College of Veterinary Medicine Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50010

Tel: (515) 294–7189

Fax: (515) 294–8259

e-mail: iicab@iastate.edu