Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part XXI - Animals and Animal Health › Chapter 7 - Cattle, Bison, and other Bovine (Formerly Chapter 3) › Subchapter C - Tuberculosis › Section XXI-731 - Testing of Cattle and the Movement of Cattle from Tuberculosis Quarantined Herds and the Establishment and Maintenance of All Tuberculosis Accredited Herd s (Formerly Section 327)

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A.
				  Quarantine Procedures and Disposition of Movement from Quarantined Herds
1. All herds in which reactor animals are
				  disclosed shall be quarantined. All animals in a
Mycobacterium
				  bovis
herd shall be tested.
2. Reactors must remain on the premises where
				  disclosed until a state or federal permit has been obtained. Movement for
				  immediate slaughter must be direct to a slaughter establishment where approved
				  state or federal inspection is maintained within 15 days of classification.
				  Upon delivery to the slaughtering establishment, reactors shall be slaughtered
				  as soon as practicable.
3. No
				  animals classified as a reactor shall be retained.
4. Suspects to the tuberculin test shall be
				  quarantined to the herd where found or shipped under permit to slaughter in
				  accordance with the state and federal laws and regulations. Suspects to the
				  caudal fold tuberculin test shall be quarantined to the premises where found
				  until:
a. retested by the
				  comparative-cervical tuberculin test within 10 days of the caudal fold
				  injection;
b. retested by the
				  comparative-cervical tuberculin test after 60 days; or
c. shipped under permit direct to slaughter
				  in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations.
5. Exposed animals must remain on the
				  premises where disclosed unless a state or federal permit has been obtained.
				  Movement for immediate slaughter must be direct to a slaughtering establishment
				  where approved state or federal inspection is maintained.
6. Sale of feeder calves from quarantined
				  herds will be restricted. Feeder calves under 12 months of age that have passed
				  a tuberculin test within 60 days of movement may be permitted to move
				  intrastate to a quarantined feedlot.
7. Herds in which
Mycobacterium
				  bovis
infection has been disclosed shall remain under quarantine and
				  must pass two tuberculin tests at intervals of at least 60 days and one
				  additional test after six months. The minimum quarantine period shall be 10
				  months from slaughter of lesion reactors.
8. Herds in which NGL reactor(s) only occur
				  and no evidence of
Mycobacterium bovis
infection has been
				  disclosed may be released from quarantine after a 60 day retest on the entire
				  herd.
9. In herds where
Mycobacterium bovis
infection has been confirmed but the herd
				  not depopulated, five annual tests on the entire herd followed by two tests at
				  three year intervals shall be applied following the release of
				  quarantine.
10. In herds with
				  history lesions suspicious of bovine tuberculosis (not confirmed), two complete
				  annual herd tests shall be applied after release of quarantine; the first test
				  to be applied approximately one year after release of quarantine.
11. In a newly assembled herd on a premises
				  where a tuberculous herd has been depopulated, two annual herd tests shall be
				  applied to all cattle, the first test to be applied approximately six months
				  after assembly of the new herd. These tests shall be followed by two complete
				  herd tests at three year intervals.