Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 2 - Agriculture and Commerce › Part 101 - Rules of the Board of Animal Health › Subpart 2 - Administrative Rules › Chapter 16 - Scrapie Eradication › Section 2-101-2-16-112

Current through June 25, 2024
Definitions used in this chapter are as follows:
1. "Accredited veterinarian" means a
				  veterinarian approved by the administrator of the Animal and Plant Health
				  Inspection Service (APHIS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and
				  the state veterinarian in accordance with Part 161 of Title 9, Chapter 1 of the
				  Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), to perform functions required by cooperative
				  state-federal animal disease control and eradication programs.
2. "Administrator" means the administrator of
				  APHIS or any employee of USDA to whom the administrator has delegated authority
				  to act on behalf of the administrator.
3. "Animal" means any sheep or
				  goat.
4. "APHIS representative"
				  means an individual employed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
				  (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in animal health
				  activities who is authorized by the administrator to perform the functions and
				  duties involved.
5. "Approved
				  laboratory" means a diagnostic laboratory approved by APHIS to conduct tests
				  for Scrapie or genotypes on one or more tissues.
6. "Area veterinarian-in-charge" or "AVIC"
				  means the veterinary official of APHIS assigned by APHIS to supervise and
				  perform the official animal health work of APHIS in Mississippi.
7. "Board" means the Mississippi Board of
				  Animal Health.
8. "Breed
				  associations and registries" means the organizations that maintain the
				  permanent records of ancestry or pedigrees of animals (including each animal's
				  sire and dam), individual identification of animals, and ownership of
				  animals.
9. "Certificate of
				  Veterinary Inspection" or "CVI" means an official document approved by the
				  Board and issued by a licensed accredited veterinarian at the point of origin
				  of movement of animals.
10.
				  "Commingle" means to group animals together in a manner that allows them to
				  have physical contact with each other, including contact through a fence, but
				  not limited contact. Commingling includes sharing the same section in a
				  transportation unit where physical contact can occur.
11. "Designated Scrapie epidemiologist" or
				  "DSE" means a state or federal veterinarian designated by the Board and APHIS
				  to make decisions about the use and interpretation of diagnostic tests and
				  field investigation data and the management of flocks and animals of
				  epidemiological significance to the Scrapie program.
12. "Directly to slaughter" means movement
				  from a farm to a place of business where animals are processed into meat,
				  excluding movement through an auction market or livestock dealer's place of
				  business.
13. "Exposed animal"
				  means any animal that has had contact with a Scrapie-positive animal or had
				  contact with a premises where a Scrapie-positive animal has resided and for
				  which a flock plan has not yet been completed. Exposed animals shall be
				  evaluated by a state or federal veterinarian in concurrence with the DSE and
				  state veterinarian and may be redesignated into a risk category according to
				  genetic resistance and exposure and may be restricted or have restrictions
				  removed in accordance with current USDA regulations.
14. "Exposed flock" means any flock in which:
a. A Scrapie-positive animal was born or gave
				  birth; or
b. A high-risk or suspect
				  female animal currently resides; or
c. A high-risk or suspect animal once resided
				  that gave birth or aborted in the flock and from which tissues were not
				  submitted for official Scrapie testing.