Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 209 - Arkansas Agriculture Department › Division 01 - Livestock And Poultry Commission › Rule 209.01.07-001 - 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.'")
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.
			 Owners of horses (all equidae) domiciled within the state of Arkansas shall be
			 responsible for maintaining a negative current official EIA (equine infectious
			 anemia) test on all horses (equidae) that they own. When an owner/agent of any
			 equine in the state of Arkansas has been found to be in violation of this
			 requirement, the owner will have no more than 14 (fourteen) days from receiving
			 a quarantine notice and warning letter to have all of his/her equine tested for
			 EIA. At the discretion of ARLPC officials, the fourteen day period could be
			 extended. The penalty for violation of this regulation is a Class A misdemeanor
			 under state law.
6. When a private
			 laboratory obtains a positive ELISA test for EIA, the horse will be quarantined
			 and permitted back to the farm of origin and all horses on that premises will
			 be quarantined while waiting on a final confirmation test (AGID). Also, exposed
			 or adjacent equine shall be quarantined if necessary. It will be the
			 responsibility of the testing veterinarian to notify Arkansas Livestock &
			 Poultry Commission officials of a positive ELISA test. If the final AGID test
			 is negative, then the quarantine will be released. If the final AGID test is
			 positive, then part seven of this regulation will go into effect.
7. 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.
8. Deviations in testing and quarantines are
			 acceptable when they are made by the designated epidemiologist.
Issued in Little Rock, Arkansas on December 7,
				2006.