Indiana Administrative Code › Title 345 - INDIANA STATE BOARD OF ANIMAL HEALTH › Article 3 - SWINE › Rule 5.1 - Swine Pseudorabies Testing, Control and Eradication; Pseudorabies-Qualified Herds › Section 5.1-1.2 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC
				  15-17-3-21
Affected: IC 15-17-2; IC 15-17-12
Sec. 1.2.
The definitions in IC 15-17-2, the definitions in the Program
				  Standards, and the following definitions apply throughout this rule:
(1) "Board" means the Indiana state board of
				animal health.
(2) "Breeding
				animal" means a sexually intact swine that is at least six (6) months of age
				and that is not moving in slaughter channels.
(3) "Feeder pig" means swine intended for
				feeding purposes and swine of any breed weighing one hundred eighty (180)
				pounds or less.
(4) "High risk
				herd" means one which is adjacent, in close proximity, or exposed to an
				infected herd, feeder pigs, or a herd determined as such by the owner and the
				attending veterinarian. The final determination of the herd status will be made
				by the state veterinarian.
(5)
				"Isolated" means swine must be maintained in a manner to ensure that these
				swine will have no physical contact with other domestic animals on the
				premises. All drainage of organic waste material must be designed to prevent it
				from having contact with any other swine on the premises. The area where the
				swine are maintained may be approved by a representative of the board and shall
				be separated from other animals by two (2) barriers (for example, fences or
				walls) with the intervening area uninhabited by swine or separated by a lot or
				a road. No other swine may be in the same building unless approved by the state
				veterinarian.
(6) "Official
				gene-altered Pseudorabies vaccine" means any vaccine for which there is an
				approved differential Pseudorabies test.
(7) "Officially vaccinated herd" means any
				herd of swine in which a percentage of the swine in the herd as outlined in
				section 8(a) of this rule has been tested and found negative for Pseudorabies
				prior to being vaccinated with differentiable Pseudorabies vaccine. Officially
				vaccinated herds will not be quarantined for Pseudorabies vaccine
				use.
(8) "Pseudorabies Program
				Standards" or "Program Standards" means the Pseudorabies
				Eradication-State-Federal-Industry Standards, as adopted by the United States
				Department of Agriculture, and incorporated herein by reference in section 1.5
				of this rule.
(9) "Pseudorabies
				vaccine" means a biological product designed for the prevention or control of
				Pseudorabies. Any vaccine sold or offered for sale or exchange, to be used or
				otherwise distributed, shall be in accordance with IC
				15-17-12-1, IC
				15-17-12-2,
				and IC
				15-17-12-4.
(10) "Qualified negative gene-altered
				vaccinated herd" means a herd of swine in which all swine over six (6) months
				of age have been vaccinated with an official gene-altered Pseudorabies vaccine.
				The herd status is maintained by following the testing protocol as described in
				the Pseudorabies Program Standards except all samples must be tested using an
				approved differential Pseudorabies test and all swine so tested must be found
				negative for Pseudorabies.
(11)
				"Quarantine" means an order restricting the movement of swine into or out of,
				or both, a premises.
(12)
				"Slaughter animal" means the following swine:
(A) Any swine weighing more than one hundred
				eighty (180) pounds that is not a breeding animal.
(B) Any swine in slaughter
				channels.