California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 2 - Animal Industry › Chapter 2 - Livestock Disease Control › Article 3 - Interstate and Intrastate Movement of Sheep and Goats › Section 760 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) As
				  used in this article:
(1) "Accredited
				  veterinarian" means a veterinarian approved by the Department and the United
				  States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in accordance with the provisions in 9
				  CFR Part 161 (1/1/02 Edition).
(2)
				  "Animal" means a sheep or goat.
(3)
				  "Approved saleyard" means a premises approved by the Department and the USDA to
				  handle sheep and goats for release only to recognized slaughter establishments
				  or to a feedlot approved by the Department for feeding animals for the express
				  purpose of improving the animals' condition for movement to
				  slaughter.
(4) "Brucella ovis free
				  flock" means a flock of sheep officially recognized by the state of origin as
				  free of Brucella ovis.
(5)
				  "Brucellosis" means the contagious, infectious, and communicable disease caused
				  by bacteria of the genus Brucella.
(6) "Designated scrapie epidemiologist" means
				  a state or federal veterinarian with knowledge of scrapie epidemiology,
				  selected by state and federal veterinarians in charge with the concurrence of
				  the USDA scrapie staff. The designated epidemiologist will coordinate and
				  evaluate the Scrapie Eradication Program as assigned.
(7) "Direct movement to slaughter" means
				  transported to a facility for slaughter, without stops or unloading except for
				  feeding and watering during which the animals are not commingled with any other
				  animals.
(8) "Flock" means a number
				  of animals that are kept, fed and herded together having a single or multiple
				  ownership. Changes in ownership of part or all of a flock do not change the
				  identity of the flock. This term shall be interchangeable with the term herd
				  and shall apply to purebred and commercial sheep or goats.
(9) "Official certificate" means a
				  Certificate of Veterinary Inspection, or other inspection or movement document
				  approved by the Department, issued by a licensed accredited veterinarian at the
				  point of origin prior to an interstate animal health movement into
				  California.
(10) "Official eartag"
				  means an identification eartag approved by the Department and USDA as
				  sufficiently tamper-resistant for the intended use and providing unique
				  identification for each animal. An official eartag may conform to the
				  alphanumeric National Uniform Ear Tagging System or another system approved by
				  the Department and USDA, or it may bear a premises identification number that
				  either contains or is used in conjunction with the producer's livestock
				  production numbering system to provide a unique identification
				  number.
(11) "Official
				  identification" means an identification mark or device approved by the
				  Department and USDA.
(12) "Official
				  test for Brucella ovis" means a sample collected from a test eligible ram by a
				  licensed accredited veterinarian and tested using an approved method at an
				  approved laboratory. The individual identification of the ram tested must be
				  recorded and accompany the sample to the laboratory.
(13) "Owner" means a person, partnership,
				  company, corporation, or any other legal entity that has legal or rightful
				  title to animals, whether or not they are subject to a mortgage.
(14) "Premises" means the ground, area,
				  buildings, and equipment occupied by one or more flocks of animals.
(15) "Premises identification" means a
				  Department and USDA approved method used to identify an animal back to the
				  premises of the flock of origin.
(16) "Scrapie" means a transmissible
				  spongiform encephalopathy that is a fatal, degenerative disease affecting the
				  central nervous system of sheep and goats.
(17) "Scrapie consistent state" means a state
				  that the Department and USDA recognize as having an effective scrapie control
				  program.
(18) "Scrapie Eradication
				  Program" means the cooperative state and federal program administered by the
				  USDA and Consistent States to control and eradicate scrapie.
(19) "Scrapie infected flock" means any flock
				  in which a representative of the Department or USDA has determined that a
				  scrapie-positive female animal has resided unless an epidemiological
				  investigation conducted by a representative of the Department or USDA shows
				  that the animal did not lamb or abort in the flock.
(20) "Scrapie low-risk commercial sheep and
				  goats" means commercial whiteface, whiteface cross, or commercial hair sheep,
				  and goats commingled with such sheep that would be low risk goats if they were
				  not commingled with such sheep. Animals must be identified with official
				  eartags, official tattoos, legible permanent brand or ear notch pattern
				  registered with an official brand registry, or other methods approved by the
				  Department. The flock must have no known risk factors for scrapie, including
				  any exposure to female blackface sheep. Low-risk commercial sheep may only
				  exist in a state where scrapie has not been diagnosed in the previous 10 years
				  in commercial whiteface, whiteface cross, or commercial hair sheep that were
				  not commingled with female blackface sheep.
(21) "Scrapie low-risk goat" means a goat
				  that is not scrapie-positive, suspect, has not been exposed to scrapie, has not
				  commingled with sheep, and is from: a state in which scrapie has not been
				  identified in a goat during the previous 10 years, or; a state in which scrapie
				  has been identified in a goat during the previous 10 years, but the
				  scrapie-positive goat was not born in the state, resided in the state for less
				  than 72 months and did not kid while in the state, or; a state in which scrapie
				  has been identified in a goat during the previous 10 years, and the
				  scrapie-positive goat was commingled with sheep, but flock records allowed a
				  complete epidemiological investigation to be completed and all resulting goat
				  herds have completed the requirements of flock plans and are in compliance with
				  post-exposure monitoring plans.
(22) "Scrapie non-compliant flock" means any
				  flock whose owner fails to comply with the requirements of the Department or
				  USDA for the control and eradication of scrapie.
(23) "Scrapie positive animal" means an
				  animal for which a diagnosis of scrapie has been made by a laboratory approved
				  by the Department and the USDA.
(24) "Scrapie source flock" means a flock in
				  which an animal was born and subsequently diagnosed as scrapie-positive at an
				  age of 72 months or less.
(25)
				  "Scrapie suspect animal" means a sheep or goat suspected of having scrapie by
				  an accredited veterinarian or a Department or USDA representative.
(26) "Slaughter channels" means any animal
				  that is sold, transferred, or moved directly to a slaughter facility; or to an
				  approved saleyard; or to an individual for custom slaughter; or for feeding for
				  the express purpose of improving the animals' condition for movement to
				  slaughter. Sexually intact mature female animals kept in the same enclosure as
				  breeding animals from another flock are not in slaughter channels.
(27) "USDA" means the United States
				  Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection
				  Service.