AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 10,1984
Animal embryo
WASHINGTON, D.C. The growing in popularity in the
public has until Dec. 21 to com- livestock industry. It is currently
ment on a U.S. Department of being used on a commercial basis
Agruculture proposal to establish in cattle, horses, swine, sheep,
import regulations for livestock goats and rabbits,
embryos brought into the United “Technology exists to allow the
States. collection and preservation of
According to Bert W. Hawkins, embryos for movement to any
administrator of USDA’s Animal country in the world. These em
and Plant Health Inspection bryos can then be reimplanted in
Service, embryo transplantation is the wombs of recipient dams,
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where they are earned till birth.
This leaves donor animals free to
be reinseminated so they can
produce more embryos - thus
allowing female animals of
superior breeding to produce many
more offspring than under normal
circumstances.
“Until now,” Hawkins said, “our
import regulations dealt only with
live animals, animal products or
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semen. Since there were no the donor dam met all U.S. import
provisions for embryos, they could requirements,
not be imported. The new Other requirements include:
regulations establish specific —The embryo must be conceived
requirements for importing em- as a result of semen, collected at
k*?™' . , ~ , an approved artificial in-
We want to provide a way for semination center, being in
embryos to be imported, ’ Hawkins seminated in a donor dam at an
said. “But at the same time we approved embryo transfer center,
must establish necessary -The embryo must be exported
safeguards against accidental f rom the country in which is was
importation of foreign diseases conceived,
such as foot-and-mouth disease or -The embryo must be collected
rinderpest, which do not exist in an( j maintained under conditions
this country. preventing contamination with
animal disease organisms.
The proposal would require 1 0I ? ir^5 nts ma y seat
importers to obtain a permit from P ec - to TTiomas G , Ges . se ’
APHIS prior to importation.
Embryos would have to be ac- Staff, APHIA, USDA, R«>m 728
companied by a health certificate
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