Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 125 - Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission › Rule 125.00.06-004 - EIA Regulations Regarding Act 1306 of 1997

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
1. Testing of equidae done at approved
		  markets may be done by licensed, accredited, practicing veterinarians or by
		  Commission authorized personnel. If blood is collected by Commission personnel,
		  the cost will be $25.00 per animal, payable to the market by the owner. The
		  market shall pay the Livestock and Poultry Commission $25.00 per animal tested
		  by the Commission personnel by the 10th of the next month following the sale.
		  If blood is collected by practicing veterinarian, fees will be by private
		  treaty.
2. There will be a $3.00
		  fee assessed to Arkansas licensed, practicing veterinarians for each Arkansas
		  domiciled equidae tested for EIA. An equine is considered domiciled within the
		  state when it has been pastured, stabled, housed, or kept in any fashion in the
		  state more than thirty consecutive or inconsecutive days. The $3.00 fee will
		  also be assessed on any out-of-state equidae that is being tested at a market
		  to be sold in Arkansas. This fee is in addition to laboratory fees for running
		  the test. Failure to submit fees according to provisions of regulation will
		  cause test papers to be rendered invalid and in case of reactor or adjacent
		  herd testing the continuance of quarantine until fees are received by the
		  Commission. Arkansas licensed, practicing veterinarians who wish to use the
		  Commission's EIA ID test card for equidae owners that contains all pertinent
		  and necessary information may access and submit digital photographs of horse(s)
		  to the Commission's website. A $5 fee will be assessed for each EIA test card
		  issued. This is in addition to the laboratory testing fees and EIA regulatory
		  fee.
3. Accredited laboratories
		  conducting tests on samples from Arkansas equidae or samples from sales in
		  Arkansas shall send Part
		  4 of the VS Form 10-11 (or other form
		  approved by the Commission), or a legible copy of this form to the Arkansas
		  Livestock and Poultry Commission, P. O. Box 8505, Little Rock, AR 72215 by the
		  10th of the month following the month the test was run. (Positive samples must
		  still be reported within 24 hours of classification.)
4. Livestock markets must be approved by the
		  Commission for selling equidae. Markets that accept reactor or exposed animals
		  for sale, and markets that allow horses to be tested on site must have a
		  quarantine pen that is clearly marked with a sign or paint to keep reactors and
		  exposed horses in, as well as any equidae that test positive at the market.
		  They also must have a fly control program as described in the Code of Federal
		  Regulations, Part
		  75:
"The stockyard shall have in
		  effect a fly control program utilizing at least one of the following; baits,
		  fly strips, electric bug killers ("Fly Zappers," "Fly Snappers," or similar
		  equipment), application of a pesticide effective against flies, applied
		  according to the schedule and dosage recommended by the manufacturer for fly
		  control.
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The quarantine pen must be far enough from the area where
			 negative tested animals are kept that in the opinion of the inspector the
			 negative tested equidae will not be exposed.
Markets that handle only equidae with current tests (conducted
			 within the last six (6) months) are not required to have a quarantine pen or
			 fly control program.
5 When a reactor
		  equidae is detected all equidae within the affected and adjacent herds will be
		  quarantined by an authorized agent of the Commission All equidae in affected
		  and adjacent herds will remain quarantined until all are tested negative at
		  least 60 days and no more than 80 days after the removal of the
		  reactor.
6 Deviations in testing
		  and quarantines are acceptable when they are made by the designated
		  epidemiologist.