23 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 11, § 010 - Official Testing - Cattle Brucellosis

010.01 Except as provided in 23 NAC 11-010.01A and B, below, all market test cattle are sold or bartered through a dealer concentration point shall be brucellosis tested in the manner prescribed below. The exceptions are as follows:

010.01A Cattle sold to immediate slaughter need not be tested and;

010.01B Cattle purchased by the dealer from farms, ranches and feedlots may be purchased without a negative test if they are properly identified as prescribed in these regulations, and if, within seven (7) days, they are either given an official brucellosis test, or delivered to a market, or sold to immediate slaughter.

010.02 The official brucellosis testing procedure shall be the standard plate test.

Results of the standard plate test shall be confirmed in the State-Federal Laboratory by the same testing procedure. Standard plate test classifications are as follows:

Official Vaccinates				All Others
1:50	1:100	1:200		1:50	1:100	1:200
-	-	-	NEGATIVE	-	-	-	NEGATIVE
1	-	-	NEGATIVE	1	-	-	SUSPECT
+	-	-	NEGATIVE	+	-	-	SUSPECT
+	1	-	SUSPECT	+	1	-	SUSPECT
+	+	-	SUSPECT	+	+	-	REACTOR
+	+	1	SUSPECT	+	+	1	REACTOR
+	+	+	REACTOR	+	+	+	REACTOR

Notes

23 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 11, § 010