WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cattle
unported from the Republic of
Ireland will have to meet
strengthened brucellosis testing
requirements if proposed new U.S.
Department of Agriculture import
regulations are adopted.
John K. Atwell, deputy ad
ministrator of USDA's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service,
said recent' Occurrences of bru
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Stronger
cellosis in cattle imported from
Ireland have mad? it necessary to
require additional evidence that
future imports are free of this
contagious disease of livestock and
humans.
Atwell said the proposed new
rules would require imported
cattle from Ireland to originate
from herds that meet rigid stan
dards of testing to demonstrate
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import rules for Irish cattle possible
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they are free of brucellosis This
would include negative annual
herd tests for the preceding two
years, and records showing that
additions to the herd have the
same brucellosis-free status
In addition to the herd health
status requirement, the individual
animals would have to pass two
negative brucellosis tests with an
interval of not less than 60 days nor
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more than 120 days between tests.
These tests would use all three of
the accepted brucellosis testing
orocedures—the elate or
agglutination test, the brucellosis
card test add the complement
fixation test.
The cattle to be imported would
have be to maintained for at least
60 days before shipment at a
separate isolation facility ap
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proved by Irish government
veterinarians From that facility
they would be shipped directly to
the U S port of entry quarantine
station without further contact
with any other livestock
Brucellosis is a bacterial disease
which causes breeding problems
and losses from reduced calf crops
and lower milk yields
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