South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 12 - Department of Agriculture › Article 12:68 - Disease control and meat inspection › Chapter 12:68:23 - Tuberculosis control in cervidae › Section 12:68:23:02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(1)
  "Accredited herd" means a cervidae herd that has passed at least two
  consecutive official tuberculosis tests of all eligible animals, conducted at
  nine to 15-month intervals, and has no evidence of bovine tuberculosis or
  exposure to it;
(2) "Accredited
  veterinarian" means a veterinarian approved by the deputy Administrator of
  Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States
  Department of Agriculture, and the state veterinarian, in accordance with 9
  C.F.R. Part 161 (January 1, 2021), to perform functions required by cooperative
  state-federal animal disease control and eradication programs;
(3) "Affected herd" means a herd that
  contains or has contained one or more animals infected with Mycobacterium bovis
  and has not passed the required tests prescribed by this chapter for release
  from quarantine;
(4) "Approved
  laboratory" means the National Veterinary Service Laboratory, Ames,
  Iowa;
(5) "Cervidae" means all
  species of deer, elk, moose, and caribou;
(6) "Comparative cervical tuberculin test"
  means the intradermal injection of biologically balanced bovine purified
  protein derivative tuberculin and avian purified protein derivative tuberculin,
  at separate sites in the midcervical area, to determine the probable presence
  of infection, by comparing the response of the two tuberculins, 72 hours plus
  or minus six hours following injection by a veterinarian employed by the state
  veterinarian or by the United States Department of Agriculture;
(7) "Designated accredited veterinarian"
  means an accredited veterinarian trained and designated by the state
  veterinarian to conduct the single cervical test or draw blood for the dual
  path platform test for tuberculosis on cervidae;
(8) "Direct shipment to slaughter" means the
  shipment of tuberculosis reactors, tuberculosis suspects, and
  tuberculosis-exposed cervidae, from the premises of origin, by permit, directly
  to a slaughtering establishment operating under state or federal inspection,
  without diversion to assembly points of any type;
(9) "Dual path platform test" means a
  serological assay to determine the presence of antibodies to bovine
  tuberculosis in elk, red deer, white-tailed deer, fallow deer, and reindeer, in
  which a blood sample taken from a captive cervidae and buffer solution is
  placed on a strip. The diluted sample then migrates to another strip, which
  contains an antibody-detecting reagent. This latter strip indicates whether
  antibodies are present in the sample;
(10) "Exposed animals" means cervidae that
  have associated with animals known to be tuberculous;
(11) "Herd" means one or more cervidae or a
  group of cervidae and other hoofed stock maintained on common ground, or two or
  more groups of cervidae under common ownership or supervision that are
  geographically separated but can have an interchange or movement without regard
  to health status;
(12) "Natural
  additions" means animals born and raised in a herd;
(13) "Negative animals" means cervidae that
  show no response to a tuberculosis test or that have been classified as
  negative by the testing veterinarian based on history, supplemental tests,
  examination of carcasses, or laboratory results;
(14) "No gross lesion (NGL) animals" means
  cervidae that do not reveal any lesions of bovine tuberculosis upon
  necropsy;
(15) "Official eartag"
  means an identification eartag, as defined in
  9 C.F.R. §
										71.1 (January 1, 2021);
(16) "Official tuberculosis test" means a
  test for bovine tuberculosis applied and reported in accordance with this
  chapter;
(17) "Permit" means an
  official document issued by a representative of Animal Plant Health Inspection
  Service, Veterinary Service, a state representative, or an accredited
  veterinarian, required to accompany reactor, suspect, or exposed cervidae to
  slaughter;
(18) "Qualified herd"
  means a cervidae herd that has undergone at least one complete official
  negative test of all eligible animals, within the past twelve months, and is
  not classified as an accredited herd, has no evidence of bovine tuberculosis,
  and meets the standards of this chapter;
(19) "Reactor" means a cervidae that shows a
  response to an official tuberculosis test and is classified a reactor by the
  testing veterinarian;
(20) "Single
  cervical tuberculin test" means the intradermal injection of 0.1 mL or 5,000
  tuberculin units of United States Department of Agriculture bovine purified
  protein derivative tuberculin in the midcervical region with reading by visual
  observation and palpation in 72 hours, plus or minus six hours, following
  injection;
(21) "Suspect" means a
  cervidae that shows a response to an official tuberculosis test and is not
  classified as a reactor or is not classified as negative or as a reactor by a
  supplemental tuberculosis test;
(22) "Tuberculin" means a product that is
  approved by and produced under United States Department of Agriculture license
  for the intradermal injection of cervidae for the purpose of detecting bovine
  tuberculosis; and
(23)
  "Tuberculosis" means a disease in Cervidae caused by Mycobacterium
  bovis.
General Authority:
SDCL
		40-3-14,
		40-3-25,
		40-3-26,
		40-5-8.6.
Law Implemented:
SDCL
		40-3-14,
		40-5-8 to
		40-5-8.4,
		40-5-9.
"Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication," APHIS 91-45-011, January 22, 1999,
		published by Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States
		Department of Agriculture. Copies may be obtained at no charge from South
		Dakota Animal Industry Board, 411 South Fort Street, Pierre, South Dakota
		57501.