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NAHLN Concept Paper Available for Comment
June 5, 2013 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making available a concept paper that describes a revised structure for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) for public review...

Kehrli Named NADC Director
May 22, 2013 —  [USDA]
AASV member Dr. Marcus Kehrli has been named the Center Director for the National Animal Disease Center (NADC), in Ames, Iowa. He replaces acting Center Director Diana Whipple, Deputy Center...

NAHLN Concept Paper Available for Comment
May 15, 2013 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making available a concept paper that describes a revised structure for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) for public review...

High-Consequence Animal Diseases Factsheet
May 8, 2013 —  [USDA]
As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) safeguarding mission, the agency has prepared a factsheet that explains the criteria used to...

NAHLN Concept Paper Available for Comment
May 1, 2013 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making available a concept paper that describes a revised structure for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) for public review...

Volunteer for APHIS National Animal Health Emergency Response Corps
April 3, 2013 —  [USDA]
In 2001, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) established the National Animal Health Emergency Response Corps (NAHERC) to respond...

USDA Publishes Final Traceability Rule
January 9, 2013 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has published the final rule amending the regulations to establish minimum national official identification and documentation requirements for the...

USDA Finalizes Traceability Rule
December 26, 2012 —  [USDA]
On Thursday, December 20th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a final rule establishing general regulations for improving the traceability of U.S. livestock moving interstate. Under...

The Second Phase of the NAHMS Swine 2012 Study begins September 10th
September 5, 2012 —  [USDA]
The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has completed phase 1 of the NAHMS Swine 2012 study. Names of participating producers have been turned over to USDA’s Veterinary Services...

NAHMS 2012 Swine Study Kicks Off
July 25, 2012 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
USDA’s National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) has begun the Swine 2012 Study this month (July 2012). This is the fifth national swine study done to date during which NAHMS will take an...

USDA APHIS Celebrates 40 Years of Public Service
May 23, 2012 —  [USDA]
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) celebrated the agency’s 40th anniversary on May 16. While APHIS’ program activities and responsibilities have grown and evolved since the...

USDA Estimates Number of U.S. Swine Operations, Farms
March 14, 2012 —  [USDA]
The number of U.S. operations with hogs in 2011 totaled 69,100, unchanged from 2010. Operations with 2,000 or more head accounted for 87 percent of the inventory, according to a USDA annual report on...

USDA Loan Repayment Awards Help Deliver Veterinarian Services to Underserved Rural Communities
February 1, 2012 —  [USDA]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today 80 awards to American veterinarians to help repay a portion of their veterinary school loans in return for serving areas lacking sufficient...

USDA Comments on Recent H3N2 Reassortant in Pennsylvania
October 5, 2011 —  [USDA]
All state public health laboratories have the capacity to test respiratory specimens for influenza viruses with sensitive and specific assays that can detect human and non-human influenza A viruses....

Update: National Veterinary Accreditation Program – October 1 Deadline
September 27, 2011 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
If you are an accredited veterinarian and you have not yet notified the National Veterinary Accreditation Program (NVAP) that you wish to retain your accreditation, you must submit an application to...

Update: National Veterinary Accreditation Program – October 1 Deadline
September 13, 2011 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
If you are an accredited veterinarian and you have not yet notified the National Veterinary Accreditation Program (NVAP) that you wish to retain your accreditation, you must submit an application to...

2012 NAHMS Swine Study
August 23, 2011 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) plans to conduct a 2012 swine-focused National Animal Health Monitoring Study (NAHMS). Starting in 1990, APHIS, in collaboration with the...

Update: National Veterinary Accreditation Program – October 1 Deadline
August 23, 2011 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
If you are an accredited veterinarian and you have not yet notified the National Veterinary Accreditation Program (NVAP) that you wish to retain your accreditation, you must submit an application to...

USDA Seeks Comments on the Proposed Rule for Animal Disease Traceability
August 10, 2011 —  [USDA]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today issued a proposed rule to establish general regulations for improving the traceability of U.S. livestock...

An Update on the Animal Disease Traceability Framework
July 28, 2011 —  [USDA]
On February 5, 2010, USDA announced a new, flexible framework for animal disease traceability in the United States. The Secretary of Agriculture and other USDA officials launched a widespread...

Your Opinion is Needed to Help Make USDA’s 2012 National Swine Study a Success
June 29, 2011 —  [USDA]
USDA wants to hear from stakeholders of the U.S. pork industry to help develop objectives for the fifth national swine study to be conducted by USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)...

Your Opinion is Needed to Help Make USDA’s 2012 National Swine Study a Success
June 22, 2011 —  [USDA]
USDA wants to hear from stakeholders of the U.S. pork industry to help develop objectives for the fifth national swine study to be conducted by USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)...

Your Opinion is Needed to Help Make USDA’s 2012 National Swine Study a Success
June 8, 2011 —  [USDA]
USDA wants to hear from stakeholders of the U.S. pork industry to help develop objectives for the fifth national swine study to be conducted by USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)...

Your Opinion is Needed to Help Make USDA’s 2012 National Swine Study a Success
May 25, 2011 —  [USDA]
USDA wants to hear from stakeholders of the U.S. pork industry to help develop objectives for the fifth national swine study to be conducted by USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)...

Your Opinion is Needed to Help Make USDA’s 2012 National Swine Study a Success
May 11, 2011 —  [USDA]
USDA wants to hear from stakeholders of the U.S. pork industry to help develop objectives for the fifth national swine study to be conducted by USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)...

Your Opinion is Needed to Help Make USDA’s 2012 National Swine Study a Success
April 27, 2011 —  [USDA]
USDA wants to hear from stakeholders of the U.S. pork industry to help develop objectives for the fifth national swine study to be conducted by USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)...

Your Opinion is Needed to Help Make USDA’s 2012 National Swine Study a Success
April 13, 2011 —  [USDA]
USDA wants to hear from stakeholders of the U.S. pork industry to help develop objectives for the fifth national swine study to be conducted by USDA's National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)...

USDA Awards Contract to Upgrade Animal Health Surveillance System Software and Services
February 9, 2011 —  [USDA]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today that it will be upgrading its national animal health surveillance system, replacing the aging...

Classical Swine Fever (CSF) Surveillance
February 9, 2011 —  [USDA]
In January 2006, USDA implemented a CSF surveillance plan developed by the National Surveillance Unit in States (and Puerto Rico) with a high risk for introduction of CSF. Currently, there are 38...

Secretary’s Animal Health Advisory Committee to Include Two AASV Members
December 22, 2010 — Harry Snelson [USDA]
AASV members Dr. Howard Hill and Dr. Elizabeth Wagstrom were recently named to USDA's Animal Health Advisory Committee. In addition, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack named the following individuals...

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Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues