C3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26,1980
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Two states approved for stallion import from €EM-affected countries
NEW YORK South treatment, and testing of tiidi was eligible to receive
Carolina and Virginia will be imported stallions to insure horses from CEM-affected
allowed to import stallions that they are free of OEM, countries,
from countries affected with according to Pierre A. Contagious equine metritis
contagious equine metritis, Chaloux, deputy ad- is a highly transmissible
according to the U.S. ministrator for the depart- veneral disease in horses.
Department of Agriculture, ment’s Animal and Plant Stallions are mechanical
These two states now have Health Inspection Service. carriers and can be freed of
laws and regulations Prior to this action, the bacteria through
requiring further inspection, Kentucky was the only state .cleaning and scrubbing of
Ephrata man appointed
alternate to American Egg Board
NEW YORK - Secretary
of Agriculture Bob Bergland
has appointed nine members
and their alternates to the
American Egg Board.
The eighteen-member
board administers the
producer-sponsored national
research and promotion
program for eggs. Newly
appointed members and
alternates will fill vacancies
left by board members
whose terms are expiring.
New appointments in
clude:
North Atlantic states:
W. Robert Park, Valencia,
Pa., member, and Donald E.
Horn, Ephrata, Pa., alter
nate.
Sooth Atlantic states:
Roland Coles, Bent
Mountain, Va., and Ed
Houston, Lumber City, Ga.,
members; Norman Sanders,
Columbia, S.C., and George
P. McCranie, Jr., Tifton,
Ga., alternates.
East North
Central states:
John D. Weaver, Ver
sailles, Ohio, member, and
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Ernest B. Brown, Forrest, Western states:
Dl., alternate. Donald J. Long, Burbank,
West North Calif., and Ernie T. Gem-
Central states: perle, Turlock, Calif.,
Franklin J. Rich, Kalona, members; N.A. McAnnally,
lowa, member, and Gilbert Yucaipa, Calif., and Michael
Eckhoff, Umaha, Neb., F. Bromley, American Fork,
alternate. Utah, alternates.
South Central states: The egg research and
Jack M. Dubose, Gonzales, promotion program is
Texas, and R.K. Looper, financed through producer
Jackson, Miss., members, assessments authorized by
John K. Ashby, Clarksville, the Egg Research and
Tenn., and Gerald Holmes, Consumer Information Act
Stonewall, La., alternates. of 1974.
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the genitals, followed by be imported from CEM Republic 'of Germany
treatment with an antibiotic, countries if cleaned and France, Ireland, United
stated Chaloux. If the treated in the country of Kingdom, and Italy.
organism infects mares, it origin. The horses must pass The addition of South
usually results in the mare’s federal quarantine and then Carolina and Virginia as
failure to conceive or early must he moved directly to an approved states to receive
abortion. approved premises in a stallions from CEM-affected
To prevent CEM in- designated state for followup countries was published m
traduction, the department treatment and testing. the Federal Register on
published regulations for Countries presently April 11. This action
importing stallions into the considered to be affected by facilitates the importation of
U.S. The January 4, 1980, this disease include: stallions during the f or .
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