Virginia Administrative Code › Title 2 - AGRICULTURE › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › Chapter 195 - PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AVIAN INFLUENZA IN THE LIVE-BIRD MARKETING SYSTEM › Part I - Preamble; Purpose; Definitions › Section 2VAC5-195-30 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
					 regulation, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly
					 indicates otherwise:
"Accredited veterinarian" means a veterinarian approved by
					 the USDA, in accordance with the provisions of
					 9 CFR
					 160.1(2002).
"AI" means "avian influenza," a disease of viral etiology,
					 specifically an influenza A virus, that ranges from a mild or even asymptomatic
					 infection to an acute, fatal disease of chickens, turkeys, guinea fowls, and
					 other avian species, especially migratory waterfowl.
"APHIS" means the "Animal and Plant Health Inspection
					 Service," an agency of the USDA.
"Approved laboratory" means a state, federal, university or
					 private laboratory that has been approved by USDA, APHIS, VS to perform any or
					 all official program tests for AI diagnosis.
"Auction market" means a business where producers, dealers,
					 wholesalers and retailers meet to purchase, trade or sell live birds.
"Biosecurity" means the measures taken to prevent disease
					 agents from being introduced and spreading to animal populations or their
					 proximity.
"Bird" means "poultry" for the purposes of this
					 regulation.
"C&D" means "cleaning and disinfection."
"Distribution unit" means a person or business such as a
					 wholesaler, dealer, hauler, and auction market engaged in the transportation or
					 sale of poultry within the live-bird marketing system.
"Hauler" means a business or individual that transports
					 poultry from producer premises to another supplier premises, to another
					 distributor, or to a LBM.
"HPAI" means "high pathogenicity avian influenza," which is
					 any influenza virus that meets the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
					 definition and the definition included in
					 9 CFR
					 53.1.
"LBM" means "live-bird market," which is any facility that
					 receives live poultry to be resold or slaughtered and sold on-site, not
					 including any producer or grower that prior to the sale of his own birds
					 slaughters or processes them on-site or at an approved slaughter facility or
					 any producer or grower that sells live birds grown exclusively on his premises
					 and is not a "production unit" or "distribution unit" as defined herein.
"Licensing" means the requirement for issuance of a license
					 to conduct business in the live-bird marketing system in Virginia. This
					 consists of the licensing of facilities by the state and providing oversight as
					 required in this regulation.
"Live-bird marketing system" means LBMs and the production
					 and distribution units that supply LBMs with birds.
"LPAI" means "low pathogenicity avian influenza," which is
					 any AI virus that does not meet the criteria for HPAI.
"LPAI Program" means low pathogenicity avian influenza H5
					 and H7 program, the state-federal-industry cooperative program for the
					 prevention and control of H5 and H7 LPAI. Participating states shall have
					 regulations to enforce program standards and requirements.
"NVSL" means the USDA, APHIS, "National Veterinary Services
					 Laboratories" in Ames, IA. It is the national diagnostic reference
					 laboratory.
"Poultry" means any species of domestic fowl (including
					 chickens, turkeys, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, waterfowl, and game
					 birds) raised for food production or other purposes.
"Poultry waste" means dead birds, feathers, offal, and
					 poultry litter.
"Premises identification number" means a unique
					 identification number that may be assigned by the State Veterinarian to a LBM,
					 distributor, or production flock.
"Production unit" means a production facility or farm that
					 is the origin of or participates in the production of poultry offered for sale
					 in a LBM.
"State Veterinarian" means a qualified veterinarian
					 employed by the Commissioner of Virginia Agriculture and Consumer Services and
					 so designated.
"USDA" means the "United States Department of
					 Agriculture."
"VS" means "Veterinary Services," an office under the USDA,
					 APHIS.
Statutory Authority
§ 3.2-6023 of the Code of Virginia.