Haw. Code R. § 4-28-8 - Preshipment requirements
(a) In addition to
any other applicable requirements, an import permit issued by the division
shall be required to import all poultry, birds, day-old birds, and hatching
eggs. Each shipment shall have a valid import permit attached, in plain view,
to the outside of a shipping container, group of shipping containers, or pallet
of shipping containers, used to transport the birds and poultry into the
State.
(b) For all poultry and
birds, an import permit shall not be issued and entry into the State not
permitted unless the poultry and birds for entry have been quarantined in
isolation from mosquitoes in a mosquito-free and mosquito-proof enclosure under
the supervision of the accredited veterinarian issuing the CVI for entry. The
isolation period shall be for a minimum period of seven days (one hundred and
sixty-eight hours) and poultry or birds shall enter the State within thirty-six
hours of completion of the seven days isolation. The seven days isolation
period shall not apply to the following:
(1)
Hatching eggs and day-old birds;
(2) Chickens, pheasants, quail, chuckers,
rock doves (Columba livia), and budgerigars
(Melopsittacus undulates) that are older than four weeks;
and
(3) Poultry or birds with a
positive specific antibody test to West Nile virus (enzyme-linked immunosorbent
assay, plaque-reduction neutralization test, or hemagglutination inhibition
test) performed between thirty days and one hundred and eighty days of entry by
a laboratory approved by the Hawaii state veterinarian. Positive and negative
test results shall be interpreted according to national standards for the type
of test performed.
(c)
For all poultry and birds, entry shall not be permitted into the State unless
the following conditions have been met and certified in writing by the
accredited veterinarian issuing a CVI, or a NPIP state inspector authorized to
issue a "Report of Sales of Hatching Eggs, Chicks, and Poults." The issuing
accredited veterinarian or NPIP state inspector shall validate the completed
import permit accompanying each shipment by signature.
(1) For day-old poultry and poultry hatching
eggs, entry shall not be permitted into the State unless accompanied by a valid
import permit and the following:
(A) A CVI or
a NPIP "Report of Sales of Hatching Eggs, Chicks, and Poults" containing a
description and count of the day-old poultry or poultry hatching
eggs;
(B) A certificate of
participation or statement that the day-old poultry or poultry hatching eggs
originated in a flock that has a Pullorum-Typhoid clean rating and is
designated a United States sanitation monitored flock in accordance with NPIP
standards;
(C) A statement that the
day-old poultry have not been vaccinated with a vaccine containing a live agent
for any disease except Marek's disease, except that vaccination for other
conditions may be allowed when authorized by the state veterinarian. In such
exceptions, the type of vaccine, manufacturer's name, and expiration date of
the vaccine shall be included in the CVI.
(2) For poultry other than day-old poultry
and poultry hatching eggs, entry into the State shall not be permitted without
a valid import permit and a CVI issued in the state of origin within ten days
of arrival. The CVI shall:
(A) Give the type
and age of the poultry;
(B) List
the identification numbers of the poultry to be shipped;
(C) Declare that the poultry:
(i) Originated in a flock that is designated
as a U.S. sanitation flock under NPIP with a rating of Pullorum-Typhoid clean
in an official national or state plan for poultry, or tested negative for
Pullorum-Typhoid disease within thirty days of arrival;
(ii) Were not vaccinated for any disease with
a vaccine containing a live agent within sixty days of shipment; and
(iii) Were free of external parasites and
symptoms of transmissible diseases or evidence of recent exposure to parasites
or diseases; and
(D)
Declare that all non-commercial chickens were test negative by a Newcastle's
Disease virus (NDV) specific hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test within
fourteen days of arrival. Noncommercial chickens testing positive by the HI
test shall be required to test negative by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
methodology or by NDV virus isolation (VI) within fourteen days of arrival. A
positive result by PCR or VI disqualifies a bird from entry unless the virus is
determined to be a vaccine strain. Polymerase chain reaction or virus isolation
tests shall be performed on a cloacal swab sample collected within fourteen
days of arrival. The test result for each non-commercial chicken and the date
of sample collection shall be recorded on, or attached to, the CVI. Testing for
NDV shall be at a government laboratory qualified to perform PCR, VI or HI
tests specific for NDV.
(3) For birds not subject to subsection
(c)(1) or subsection (c)(2), entry into the State shall not be permitted unless
accompanied by a valid poultry and bird import permit and a CVI issued in the
state of origin within ten days of arrival. The CVI shall give a description of
each bird, including breed, sex, and age, and a list of identification numbers,
and certify that the birds described:
(A) Were
free of external parasites and symptoms of transmissible diseases or evidence
of recent exposure to parasites or diseases; and
(B) Have not been vaccinated with a vaccine
containing a live agent during the sixty-day period before shipment.
(4) In addition to the
requirements listed in subsection (c)(3), importation of birds requires:
(A) A permit issued by the plant quarantine
branch, department of agriculture, prior to shipment for certain species of
poultry and birds; and
(B) An
identification device for all birds except canaries, finches, budgerigars,
lovebirds, cockatiels, and doves, placed before arrival into the State. The
identification device shall remain on the bird at least thirty days after
importation, except that an identification device may be removed for reasons of
health or safety, in which case the importer or owner shall obtain prior
authorization from the state veterinarian or an inspector.
(d) Poultry and birds originating
from a country, State, or area with exotic NDV or highly pathogenic avian
influenza virus (AIV) may be denied entry or allowed entry only after testing
for the presence of NDV or AIV by a test method designated by the state
veterinarian.
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