APHIS Software Project Supporting Animal Disease Traceability
on Apr 03 in Industry News, NewsFrom APHIS: Animal disease traceability—knowing where diseased and at-risk animals are, where they’ve been, and when—is critical to ensuring a rapid response when animal disease events occur. An efficient and accurate animal disease traceability system helps reduce the number of animals involved in an investigation, reduces the time needed to respond, and decreases the cost to producers and the government.
The Veterinary Services Surveillance Collaboration Services (SCS) is a software project that supports the administration of the location identifiers defined in the Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) General Standards document. This link to a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document is being provided to clarify the process for administering these location identification standards. See how the Final Rule for the Animal Disease Traceability standards is being supported through the use of this SCS software.
Identifying Johne’s Disease with Accuracy
on Apr 03 in Industry News, NewsIdentifying Johne’s Disease with Accuracy
By Sandra Avant
April 1, 2013
Detecting the costly, contagious Johne’s disease in cattle is now easier, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
Johne’s disease, also known as Paratuberculosis, is estimated to cost the U.S. dairy industry more than $220 million each year. It also affects sheep, goats, deer and other animals, causing diarrhea, reduced feed intake, weight loss and sometimes death.
Microbiologist John Bannantine and his colleagues at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa, discovered an antibody that’s 100 percent specific in detecting Johne’s disease. This is the first time a specific antibody that binds only to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP), the pathogen that causes the disease, has been discovered. A patent has been awarded to scientists for the antibody, which could greatly benefit the improvement of diagnostic tests that confirm the presence of MAP.
Previous efforts to detect Johne’s disease were hindered because all antibodies used to identify MAP strains also reacted to environmental mycobacteria, according to Bannantine, who works in NADC’s Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit. Some of those antibodies also reacted to the disease pathogen responsible for bovine tuberculosis (TB) and caused false-positive results.
Other research, conducted by NADC microbiologist Judy Stabel, focused on ensuring that Johne’s disease vaccines do not cross-react with tests for bovine TB, a disease problem in states where wild deer infect cattle.
Stabel and her team vaccinated calves with an effective commercial Johne’s vaccine to test cross reactivity with TB tests. They took blood samples for a year and then measured immune and serological responses of calves using novel TB tests.
Scientists found no cross reactivity with the TB serology tests, demonstrating that animals could be vaccinated against Johne’s disease without interfering with bovine TB testing. Similar results were found with the skin test used to detect TB in cattle.
Read more about this research in the April 2013 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.
ARS is USDA’s chief intramural scientific research agency, and the research supports the USDA priority of promoting international food security.
Joint FDA and APHIS Meetings on New FDA Initiative on Use of Antibiotics in Food Animals
on Mar 14 in Industry News, Legislative, NewsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today a series of five meetings to provide the public with opportunities to discuss and provide critical feedback on the challenges faced by livestock producers and veterinarians as the FDA phases in veterinary oversight of the therapeutic use of certain medically important antimicrobials. The meetings are jointly sponsored by the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
The FDA is seeking input as it moves forward to further develop and implement its strategy to promote the judicious use in food-producing animals of antibiotics that are important in treating humans. These meetings are intended to provide a forum to discuss potential challenges faced by animal producers in areas that may lack access to adequate veterinary services and to explore possible options for minimizing adverse impacts.
The FDA has worked with many stakeholder groups and the USDA to develop a strategy that it believes will be successful in reducing antimicrobial resistance while minimizing adverse impacts on animal health and disruption to the animal agricultural industry. The agency took the following steps toward implementing this strategy:
- Issuing a guidance for industry, entitled “Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobials in Food Producing Animals,” which establishes the framework for phasing out production uses (i.e., growth promotion and feed efficiency) of antimicrobials important in treating humans, and phasing in veterinary oversight of the remaining therapeutic uses of such drugs.
- Issuing a draft guidance that will assist drug companies seeking to voluntarily revise product labels to remove production uses and to voluntarily change the marketing status of these medically important antimicrobials to include veterinary oversight or supervision.
- Providing draft text for a proposed regulation intended to improve the efficiency of existing Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) requirements. VFD drugs are new animal drugs intended for use in or on animal feed which are limited to use under the professional supervision of a licensed veterinarian.
FDA acknowledges that the proposed change in the marketing status of certain antimicrobial drugs to require the involvement of a licensed veterinarian will have practical implications for animal producers and practicing veterinarians. Once the status of the product changes from OTC to Rx or VFD, producers will no longer be able to purchase the animal drug or medicated feed product directly from suppliers, unless the producer has a valid prescription or order from a licensed veterinarian. The impact of this change on producers may vary depending on the extent to which a given producer already has access to and utilizes veterinary services. This change also has potential impacts on practicing veterinarians depending on their practice (business) model.
The dates and locations for the meetings are:
- April 9, 2013, Bowling Green, Ken.
- April 23, 2013, Olympia, Wash.
- May 8, 2013, Fort Collins, Colo.
- May 21, 2013, Pierre, S.D.
- June 4, 2013, College Station, Texas
FDA will also seek public input and additional feedback through other forums, such as webinars, as it works collaboratively with the USDA, veterinary and producer organizations to address this important issue. Comments also may be made to the FDA Docket No. FDA-2012-N-1046 at any time.
Additional information on the meetings and agenda can be found at:
Goat new internet mascot
on Mar 13 in Industry News, NewsCats have held the position of “internet’s favourite animal” for perhaps too many years now. It was only a matter of time before another unwitting beast was inadvertently catapulted into memetic stardom, and it looks like goats have stepped up to the challenge, cloven hooves akimbo and ready for their share of the takings.
Interim Guidance on use of RFID implants in registered goats
on Mar 13 in Industry News, NewsProvided by USDA/APHIS
Issue:
It has come to our attention that there is confusion among some goat registries over what constitutes an ISO compliant implant. Apparently some registries are allowing the use of the AVID 10 digit implants.
Background:
The only allowed numbering system for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices per Code of Federal Regulations is an Animal Identification Number (AIN).
Animal identification number (AIN).A numbering system for the official identification of individual animals in the United States that provides a nationally unique identification number for each animal. The AIN consists of 15 digits, with the first 3 being the country code (840 for the United States or unique country code for any U.S. territory that has such a code and elects to use it in place of the 840 code). The alpha characters USA or the numeric code assigned to the manufacturer of the identification device by the International Committee on Animal Recording may be used as an alternative to the 840 or other prefix representing a U.S territory; however, only the AIN beginning with the 840 or other prefix representing a U.S. territory will be recognized as official for use on AIN tags applied to animals on or after March 11, 2015. The AIN beginning with the 840 prefix may not be applied to animals known to have been born outside the United States.
RFID implants are also addressed by VS Memo 557.13 and the corresponding producer information posted on the Eradicate Scrapie website (www.eradicatescrapie.org). These documents indicate that RFID must be ISO 11784 and 11785 compliant, i.e. consisting of 15 digits with a country or manufacturer code and with a frequency of 134.2 kHz.
Removal of non-complaint implants and application of compliant implants is impractical and stressful to the animal. Traceability can be maintained for non-compliant implants through the registration certificate with the implant number recorded and a reader that can read the implant number accompanying the animal as described in VS Memo 557.13. However, this method of providing traceability is less robust than using 840 implants issued through AINMS as is required for implants applied after March 11, 2015.
Resolution:
To minimize impacts on stakeholders, application of non-compliant implants will be allowed until March 11, 2014 as is allowed for horses in the ADT rule. Producers using these implants for official identification should be encouraged to switch to the 840 implants when their current supply is exhausted. Producers may only apply ISO compliant chips after March 11, 2014. Further, only approved 840 implants may be applied after March 11, 2015 as required by the ADT rule.
USAHA News Alert Summaries – March 13, 2013
on Mar 13 in NewsUSAHA News Alert Summaries – March 13, 2013
1. Tests show no sign of deer disease [IN]
2. More Information on Brucellosis-Positive Elk in Bighorn Mountains
3. Canadian cattle group blasts new COOL proposal
4. Florida EHV-1: Several Quarantines to be Released Tomorrow [March 13]
5. Disease Deadly to Bats Confirmed In Georgia
6. LSU Veterinary School Opens Large Animal Isolation Unit
7. Information Sharing with Agency Stakeholders: Public Meeting [APHIS]
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1. Tests show no sign of deer disease [IN]
WANE.com
March 12, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) — Deer in Indiana still show no signs of chronic wasting disease (CWD) following the 2012 hunting season.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources reports that lab tests failed to detect the disease on any of the 1,031 tissue samples collected from hunter harvested white-tailed deer.
DFW biologists collected the samples at check stations across the state during last fall’s deer hunting season. The samples were submitted to the Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab at Purdue University for analysis.
Since the Indiana DNR began active CWD monitoring in 2002, more than 15,800 samples have been collected with no sample testing positive.
Full text:
http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/indiana/tests-show-no-sign-of-deer-disease
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2. More Information on Brucellosis-Positive Elk in Bighorn Mountains
BasinsRadio.com
March 12, 2013
Cheyenne – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department and Wyoming Livestock Board today released additional information about two elk that tested positive for brucellosis in the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming.
Both elk, one bull and one cow, were harvested by hunters during the 2012 hunting season in elk hunt area 40, approximately 15 miles west of Burgess Junction. The bull was reported harvested on October 18 in the Bear Creek drainage. The cow was reported harvested on October 16 on Bald Mountain. Both hunters submitted blood samples to the WGFD as part of the department’s statewide voluntary brucellosis surveillance program. Through this program, samples are collected from hunters in the fall and early winter, then analyzed at the WGFD lab throughout the winter.
“At this point, we don’t know how or where these elk were exposed to brucellosis,” said WGFD Chief Game Warden Brian Nesvik. “We will increase our sampling for brucellosis in this area during the 2013 elk hunting season to begin to get a better idea of how prevalent the disease might be.”
Brucellosis has not been documented in livestock in this area. The Wyoming State Veterinarian and Livestock Board are working closely with the Wyoming Game & Fish Department to determine potential risks to the cattle industry.
Full text: http://tinyurl.com/bdkva7b
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3. Canadian cattle group blasts new COOL proposal
By Tim Hearden
Capital Press
March 12, 2013
A Canadian cattlemen’s group is sharply criticizing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new mandatory country-of-origin labeling proposal, arguing it will make trade relations between the two countries worse.
The revised rule, for which a 60-day comment period began this week, would put Canadian beef at even more of a disadvantage while increasing the record-keeping burden on producers, said Dennis Laycraft, executive vice president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.
“It’s going to increase the amount of trade impairment from this rule, and quite frankly it’s going to escalate the dispute,” Laycraft told the Capital Press.
He said Canadian government officials have told him the revised rule would prompt a new complaint to the World Trade Organization, whose Appellate Body partially sided with Canada and Mexico over their initial complaint last summer.
Full text:
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/TH-cool-w-infobox-031213
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4. Florida EHV-1: Several Quarantines to be Released Tomorrow [March 13]
By Erica Larson, News Editor
TheHorse.com
March 12, 2013 – Article #31505
Equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) tests on more than 200 quarantined horses connected to the Horse Shows in the Sun (HITS) circuit came back negative, reported Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) officials in a March 12 statement. As a result, several EHV-1 quarantines are slated to be lifted tomorrow.
“Sample collection for testing was performed at HITS Tents 3, 6, and 7 yesterday (all of which previously housed horses that tested positive for the disease after leaving the show grounds),” the statement said. “Additionally, several premises with quarantines outside of the HITS Showground were tested. In total, over 200 horses were tested and all laboratory results were negative. As a result, the HITS showground and several premises outside of the … showground are scheduled to be released from quarantine tomorrow (3/13/13).”
Full text: http://tinyurl.com/b82rms5
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5. Disease Deadly to Bats Confirmed In Georgia
TheChattanoogan.com
March 12, 2013
The disease that has killed millions of bats in the eastern U.S. has been confirmed for the first time in Georgia.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that bats with white-nose syndrome were found recently at two caves in Dade County.
A National Park Service biologist and volunteers discovered about 15 tri-colored bats with visible white-nose symptoms in a Lookout Mountain Cave at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in late February. On March 5, a group led by a Georgia DNR biologist also found tri-colored bats with visible symptoms in Sittons Cave at Cloudland Canyon State Park.
A bat from each northwest Georgia site was sent to the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study in Athens. Histopathology confirmed both bats had white-nose syndrome.
Full text:
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2013/3/12/246372/Disease-Deadly-To-Bats-Confirmed-In.aspx
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6. LSU Veterinary School Opens Large Animal Isolation Unit
By Edited Press Release
TheHorse.com
March 11, 2013 – Article #31498
The Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine has announced the opening of the state-of-the-art John Franks Equine and Large Animal Isolation Unit at the school’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital. The new ensures enhanced separation of potentially infectious horses and farm animals from those that are being admitted for elective medical or surgical evaluations or other procedures. Horses and farm animals with diarrhea (suspected for salmonella, clostridium, or other enteric diseases), respiratory conditions with viral or bacterial causes, neurologic diseases (such as rabies or neurologic equine herpesvirus), or other contagious diseases will be housed exclusively in the new facility.
The 11,000 square-foot complex includes eight individual stalls, each with its own patient care area, an audio/video monitoring and communications system, and a sophisticated ventilation system to ensure containment of airborne disease. Each stall has dual access with interior and exterior doors, which will improve the efficiency and working conditions for staff and clinicians. The unit features two patient examination rooms, allowing for triage, immediate critical care stabilization, advanced procedure capabilities (e.g., ultrasonography, endoscopy, digital radiography), and other diagnostic techniques. The facility also includes two mare-foal stalls equipped with foal-care areas, two stalls equipped with the ability to hoist and maintain patients in slings, and a large animal swing gate stall with a working area for large cattle patients.
Full text:
http://www.thehorse.com/articles/31498/lsu-veterinary-school-opens-large-animal-isolation-unit
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7. Information Sharing with Agency Stakeholders: Public Meeting
Federal Register Volume 78, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 12, 2013)
Notices
Pages 15680-15681
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-05566]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Docket No. APHIS-2013-0014
Information Sharing With Agency Stakeholders: Public Meeting
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
ACTION: Request for information and notice of public meeting.
SUMMARY: We are informing the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is soliciting feedback from our stakeholders regarding cross-Agency strategic priorities. We are also announcing that APHIS is hosting a public meeting to share information about the Agency’s budget and program restructuring, as well as to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to ask questions and share their perspective.
DATES: The meeting will be held on April 11, 2013, from 10 a.m. to noon. We will accept stakeholder feedback on the specific topics raised in this notice until May 13, 2013.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in room 107A at the USDA Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC. You may submit feedback on the topics covered in this notice to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT or by submitting a comment using the Regulations.gov Web site (http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0014-0001).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Hallie Zimmers, Adviser for State and Stakeholder Relations, APHIS, Room 1153, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250;
phone (202) 799-7029.
Full text:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-03-12/html/2013-05566.htm
COOL rule update proposed
on Mar 13 in Legislative, NewsThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released an update to the Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) law to meet decisions by the World Trade Organization.
Under the proposed rule, origin designations for animals slaughtered in the United States would be required to specify the production steps of birth, raising, and slaughter of the animal. In addition, this proposed rule would eliminate the allowance for any commingling of muscle cut covered commodities of different origins. These changes will provide consumers with more specific information about muscle cut covered commodities.
“The proposed rule changes released by OMB are an excellent response to decisions by the World Trade Organization that called for changes to our COOL implementation,” said National Farmers Union president Roger Johnson. “By requiring further clarity in labels and stronger recordkeeping, the set of rules released are a win-win for farmers, ranchers and consumers.”
National Association of Agriculture and Food Policy to hold briefing
on Mar 13 in Legislative, NewsThe National Association of Agriculture and Food Policy (NAAFP), led by the Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) and the Agriculture and Food Policy Center (AFPC) will hold a briefing at 2:30pm on March 20th in House Agriculture Committee, room 1302 Longworth to discuss the latest agriculture baseline projections. There will be a discussion of the projected implications for the overall farm economy, livestock and dairy sectors, and crop commodities.
Read More…AGF2013Annual Meeting Announcement
FDA Public Meetings for Food Animal Producers
on Mar 06 in Industry News, Legislative, Newshttp://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm342478.htm?source=govdelivery
FDA Announces Public Meetings with Food-Animal Producers and Veterinarians
Five meetings intended to discuss impact of antimicrobial resistance strategy in areas of the country that may lack access to adequate veterinary services
March 6, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today a series of five meetings to provide the public with opportunities to discuss and provide critical feedback on the challenges faced by livestock producers and veterinarians as FDA phases in veterinary oversight of the therapeutic use of certain medically important antimicrobials. FDA is seeking input as it moves forward to further develop and implement its strategy to promote the judicious use in food-producing animals of antibiotics that are important in treating humans. The meetings are intended to provide a forum to discuss potential challenges faced by animal producers in areas that may lack access to adequate veterinary services and to explore possible options for minimizing adverse impacts. The meetings are jointly sponsored by FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
FDA has worked with many stakeholder groups and USDA to develop a strategy that it believes will be successful in reducing antimicrobial resistance while minimizing adverse impacts on animal health and disruption to the animal agricultural industry. The agency took the following steps toward implementing this strategy:
- Issuing a guidance for industry, entitled “Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobials in Food Producing Animals,” which establishes the framework for phasing out production uses (i.e., growth promotion and feed efficiency) of antimicrobials important in treating humans, and phasing in veterinary oversight of the remaining therapeutic uses of such drugs.
- Issuing a draft guidance that will assist drug companies seeking to voluntarily revise product labels to remove production uses and to voluntarily change the marketing status of these medically important antimicrobials to include veterinary oversight or supervision.
- Providing draft text for a proposed regulation intended to improve the efficiency of existing Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) requirements. VFD drugs are new animal drugs intended for use in or on animal feed which are limited to use under the professional supervision of a licensed veterinarian.
FDA acknowledges that the proposed change in the marketing status of certain antimicrobial drugs to require the involvement of a licensed veterinarian will have practical implications for animal producers and practicing veterinarians. Once the status of the product changes from OTC to Rx or VFD, producers will no longer be able to purchase the animal drug or medicated feed product directly from suppliers, unless the producer has a valid prescription or order from a licensed veterinarian. The impact of this change on producers may vary depending on the extent to which a given producer already has access to and utilizes veterinary services. This change also has potential impacts on practicing veterinarians depending on their practice (business) model.
The dates and locations for the meetings are:
- April 9, 2013, in Bowling Green, Ken.
- April 23, 2013, in Olympia, Wash.
- May 8, 2013, in Fort Collins, Colo.
- May 21, 2013, in Pierre, S.D.
- June 4, 2013, in College Station, Texas
FDA will also seek public input and additional feedback through other forums, such as webinars, as it works collaboratively with USDA, veterinary and producer organizations to address this important issue. Comments also may be made to the FDA Docket No. FDA-2012-N-1046 at any time.
Additional information on the meetings and agenda can be found at:
Animal Agriculture Coalition Makes Recommendations For 2013 Farm Bill
on Mar 05 in AGF Activities, Industry News, Legislative, News, News ReleasesAnimal Agriculture Coalition Makes Recommendations For 2013 Farm Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 1, 2013) – The Animal Agriculture Coalition (AAC) on Feb. 28 submitted its recommendations for the farm bill to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees.
“This past year Congress grappled to pass a farm bill that benefits all agriculture interests,” said Damon Wells, chairman of the Animal Agriculture Coalition. “It is critical that farm policy bolsters the long-term ability of U.S. animal agriculture to be competitive in the global marketplace and provides consumers around the world with safe, wholesome, affordable food that is produced in a sustainable manner. AAC’s recommendations will go a long way to achieving this objective.”
Congress needs to invest more resources on animal health, livestock, poultry, and aquaculture production, as well as in new animal products research. Expenditures for animal health are just 7 percent of those which are designated for human health research. Investment in animal health and production innovation for the world’s 25 billion chickens and turkeys, more than 1 billion cattle and sheep, 750 million pigs and goats, and more than 1 billion companion animals is grossly insufficient. To that end, the AAC believes that research and education productivity is hampered by insufficient funding for both the Agricultural Research Service and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s Agriculture, Food and Research Institute. To help bolster research, AAC supports establishing a Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research to supplement the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s basic and applied research activities.
AAC recommends reauthorizing several existing programs, namely the Market Access Program, Foreign Market Development Program, the National Poultry Improvement Plan, the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank, the Animal Health and Disease Research Program, the Trichinae Certification Program, and the National Aquatic Health Plan. The Coalition supports new authorizations to develop, implement, and sustain veterinary services; a new program to support research on animal drug needs in minor species; as well as a sheep production and marketing grant to strengthen and enhance the production and marketing of sheep and sheep products. AAC also supports a pilot study to assess the nature and extent of damage caused by feral swine.
AAC recommends that Congress optimize surveillance and surge capacity of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network by increasing the authorized funding needed to support the network. Obsolete individual surveillance labs need to be modernized to bring about diagnostic capabilities to conduct surveillance of the U.S. livestock population for all major foreign animal diseases of concern on a species by species basis.
“It is necessary for Congress and the federal government to renew its commitment to animal agriculture research and extension programs that translate into an affordable, high-quality food supply for consumers, said Wells. “The AAC urges Congress to pass a comprehensive five-year farm bill this year, as the agriculture industry cannot weather another temporary extension.”
The Animal Agriculture Coalition is comprised of most major animal and animal-related commodity organizations as well as allied organizations representing veterinary medicine, animal science and various livestock sectors or animal agriculture interests in the United States. It looks forward to working with you to ensure that farm policy benefits all agriculture interests.
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AAC e-mail distribution list as of Feb. 27, 2013. Updates to the list should be emailed to GLuke@AVMA.org |
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| AAC OFFICERS | CONTACTS (+ denotes primary contact) |
| Chair | Damon Wells, dwells@turkeyfed.org |
| Vice Chair | Gina Luke, gluke@avma.org |
| COMMODITY GROUPS
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CONTACTS (+ denotes primary contact)
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| American Dairy Goat Association | Linda Campbell, Linda@Khimaira.com |
| American Goat Federation | Linda Campbell, Linda@Khimaira.com |
| American Horse Council | +Adam Choate, achoate@horsecouncil.orgBen Pendergrass, bpendergrass@horsecouncil.org
James J. Hickey, jay@horsecouncil.org |
| American Meat Institute | +Betsy Booren, bbooren@meatami.comJim Hodges, jhodges@meatami.com |
| American Rabbit Breeders Association | +Eric Stewart, Eric@arba.net |
| American Sheep Industry Association | +Paul Rodgers, prodgers2@earthlink.netPeter Orwick, porwick@sheepusa.org
Fran Boyd, franboyd@meyersandassociates.com |
| American Veal Association | +Dale Bakke, info@realveal.com |
| National Chicken Council | +Ashley Peterson, apeterson@chickenusa.orgMary Colville, mcolville@chickenusa.org |
| National Livestock Producers Association | +Scott Stuart, scott.stuart@animalagriculture.org |
| National Milk Producers Federation | +Betsy Flores, Bflores@nmpf.orgDana Brooks, DBrooks@nmpf.org
Jamie Jonker, jjonker@nmpf.org |
| National Pork Board | +Paul Sundberg, Paul.Sundberg@porkboard.orgJennifer Koeman, jkoeman@pork.org |
| National Pork Producers Council | +Liz Wagstrom, WagstromL@nppc.orgTerry-Ann Paulo, Paulot@nppc.org
Audrey Adamson, adamsona@nppc.org Bobby Acord, bobbyacord@aol.com Chris Wall, wallc@nppc.org |
| National Turkey Federation | +Damon Wells, dwells@turkeyfed.orgJoel Brandenberger, jbrandenberger@turkeyfed.org
Leslee Oden, loden@turkeyfed.org Andrew Bailey, abailey@turkeyfed.org |
| R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America | +Bill Bullard, billbullard@r-calfusa.com |
| United Egg Producers | +Chad Gregory, chaduep@unitedegg.com |
| USPOULTRY U.S. Poultry & Egg Association | +Rafael Rivera, rrivera@uspoultry.orgJohn Starkey, jstarkey@uspoultry.org
Paul Pressley, ppressley@uspoultry.org |
| Western United Dairymen | +Charles Garrison, cgarrison@garrisongroup.com |
ALLIED ANIMAL AGRICULTURE GROUPS |
CONTACTS (+ denotes primary contact) |
| American Association of Avian Pathologists | +Gregg Cutler, gregg.j.cutler@gmail.comBob Bevans-Kerr, aaap@aaap.info |
| American Association of Bovine Practitioners | +Gatz Riddell, mgriddell@aabp.org |
| American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners | +Joan Bowen, joan.s.bowen@gmail.com |
| American Association of Swine Veterinarians | +Harry Snelson, snelson@aasv.orgTom Burkgren, burkgren@aasv.org |
| American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians | +Jim Kistler, jkistler@aavld.orgThomas McKenna, Thomas.McKenna@WVDL.wisc.edu
Tim Baszler, baszlert@vetmed.wsu.edu Barb Powers, Barb.Powers@ColoState.EDU Brad Mollet, brad.mollet@gmail.com |
| American Dairy Science Association | +Ken Olson, keolson@prodigy.netBarb Glen, bglenn@croplifeamerica.org
Ken McGuffey, kmcguffey1@netzero.net |
| American Farm Bureau | +Kelli Ludlum, kelli@fb.orgDale Moore, dalem@fb.org |
| American Feed Industry Association | +Richard Sellers, rsellers@afia.orgJill Homer Stewart, jhomer@poldir.com
Leah Wilkinson, LWilkinson@afia.org |
| American Society of Animal Science | +Ronnie Green, Rgreen2@unl.eduBrett Hess, brethess@uwyo.edu
Jerry C. Weigel, Geraldweigel49@yahoo.com |
| American Veterinary Medical Association | +Gina Luke, gluke@avma.orgAshley Morgan, amorgan@avma.org
Whitney Miller, wmiller@avma.org Kristi Henderson, khenderson@avma.org Christine Hoang, CHoang@avma.org Mark Lutschaunig, mlutschaunig@avma.org Chris Myrick, chris@cmgovernmentrelations.com |
| Animal Agriculture Alliance | +Kay Johnson Smith, kjohnson@animalagalliance.org |
| Animal Health Institute | +Brigid Zeller, bzeller@ahi.orgRon Phillips, rphillips@ahi.org |
| Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges | +Kevin Cain, kcain@aavmc.org |
| Association of Veterinary Biologics Companies | +John Thomas, jthomas@lltmlaw.com |
| Biotechnology Industry Organization | +Dave Edwards, dedwards@bio.org |
| Council for Agricultural Science and Technology | +Linda Chimenti, lchimenti@cast-science.org |
| Federation of Animal Science Societies | +Lowell Randel, lowell@therandelgroup.com |
| Livestock Exporters Association of the USA | +Tony Clayton, livestockexportersassn@earthlink.net |
| Livestock Marketing Association | +Kristen Parman, kparman@LMAWeb.com |
| Multistate Initiative on Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals | + Ken Olson, keolson@prodigy.netVivek Kapur, vkapur@psu.edu
Don Lein, dhl10@cornell.edu |
| National Aquaculture Association | +Betsy Hart, bhart@sc.rr.comRandy MacMillan, randy@clearsprings.com |
| National Association for the Advancement of Animal Science | +Lowell Randel, lowell@therandelgroup.comWalt Smith, walt@themallardgroup.net |
| National Association of Animal Breeders | +Gordon Doak, gdoak@naab-css.orgJere Mitchell, jmitchell@naab-css.org |
| National Association of Federal Veterinarians | +Mike Gilsdorf, mgilsdorf@nafv.orgCaroline Tuckhorn, ctuckhorn@nafv.org |
| National Association of Public Health Veterinarians | +Lisa Tell, latell@ucdavis.edu |
| National Association of State Departments of Agriculture | +Amy Hendrickson, amy@nasda.orgNathan Brown, nathan@nasda.org |
| National Dairy Herd Improvement Association | +Jay Mattison, jmattison@requestltd.com |
| National Farmers Union | +Mike Stranz, mstranz@nfudc.orgChandler Goule, cgoule@nfudc.org |
| National Grain and Feed Association | + David Fairfield, dfairfield@ngfa.orgRandall Gordon, RGordon@NGFA.org |
| National Institute for Animal Agriculture | +Scott Stuart, scott.stuart@animalagriculture.org |
| National Renderers Association | +David Meeker, dmeeker@nationalrenderers.comJessica Meisinger, jmeisinger@nationalrenderers.com |
| North American Meat Association | +Sally Donner, sdonner@ofwlaw.comBarry Carpenter, barry@nmaonline.org |
| Poultry Science Association | +Steve Kopperud, skopperud@poldir.com |
| U.S. Animal Health Association | +Ben Richey, brichey@usaha.org |