Or. Admin. R. 603-011-0620 - Procedures
(1) The Department
shall establish a Bovine Trichomoniasis Advisory Panel, whose membership shall
be:
(a) Five voting members who are
representatives of the cattle industry, recommended by the Animal Health
Committee of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association; and
(b) Four non-voting advisory members who are;
the OSU Extension Veterinarian, two practicing veterinarians appointed by the
Advisory Panel, and one representative of the office of the ODA State
Veterinarian.
(2)
Duties of the Advisory Board shall be to:
(a)
Advise the Department on management of issues related to the program; and
(b) Advise the Department on
preferred policies and processes for resolution of disputes related to the
program.
(3) Certified
veterinarians, as described in 603-011-0630, must report a positive test result
of Tritrichomonas foetus to the Department on a form supplied by the Department
within 24 hours of determining the result.
(4) In response to a positive bovine
trichomoniasis test the Department shall:
(a)
Conduct an investigation to identify herds that were potentially exposed to the
infected herd.
(b) Require that
any further bovine trichomoniasis testing be performed by a certified
veterinarian, and accept the results of a retest by a certified veterinarian,
if the original test was performed by a non-certified veterinarian; and
(c) Require permanent
identification and testing of all bulls, excepting virgin bulls, in the
test-positive herd and exposed herds.
(5) All bulls in herds required to be tested
must be withdrawn from breeding contact and tested between 14 and 90 days after
withdrawal.
(6) All bulls in
test-positive herds must each have three consecutive negative culture test
results with each test event separated by at least seven days and no more than
28 days, or one (1) negative qPCR Assay result completed at least seven (7)
days after initial diagnosis is made. Bulls that have a positive test result
shall be considered infected and be handled as described in 603-011-0620(8).
(a) Test-positive herds with valid
Out-of-State Permit will have all bulls restricted in place until negative test
results are complete as described in (6) above. Bulls that have a positive test
result shall be considered infected and be handled as described in
603-011-0620(8); or
(b) Return all
herdmate bulls from Out-of-State Permit affected herds to their state of origin
to complete negative trichomoniasis testing as described in (6) above. The
Department shall release the herdmate bulls from restriction when the State
Veterinarian from the state of origin notifies the Department that the required
testing is complete. Test-positive bulls shall not return.
(c) Out-of-State Permit herds exposed to
trichomoniasis will have all bulls restricted in place until one negative
trichomoniasis qPCR test is complete. Any cattle determined to be infected will
be restricted and the herd status will be changed to a test-positive herd and
subject to the requirements of subsection (6)(a) or (b); or
(d) Return all herdmate bulls to their state
of origin to complete one negative qPCR trichomoniasis test. The Department
shall release the herdmate bulls from restriction when the State Veterinarian
from the state of origin notifies the Department that the required testing is
complete. Any bull that has a positive test result shall cause the herd to be
classified as test-positive and treated as in (6)(a) or (b).
(7) All bulls from a test-positive
herd must be re-tested every trich-year until every remaining bull tests
negative during the same test period.
(a) All
bulls from a test-positive herd must be re-tested before February 1 of the
following year.
(b) All bulls
removed or culled from a test-positive herd are to be tested before removal or
culling.
(8)
Test-positive bulls shall be held under quarantine separate and apart from
other cattle or shall comply with one of the following:
(a) Culture test-positive bulls may be
retested and, if found negative on qPCR Assay completed at least seven (7) days
after initial diagnosis is made may be considered test-negative and released
from quarantine; or
(b)
Test-positive bulls moving into feeding channels shall be castrated before
moving from the ranch; or
(c)
Test-positive bulls moving out of the infected herd into commercial
slaughter-marketing channels, including collection points, shall be identified
before moving with an "S" brand applied to both sides of the tailhead and shall
move only to slaughter under authority of a VS Form 1-27 Permit for Movement of
Restricted Animals; or
(d)
Test-positive bulls moving out of the infected herd directly to slaughter shall
do so with:
(A) A VS Form 1-27 Permit for
Movement of Restricted Animals; and
(B) Prior notification of the State
Veterinarian; and
(C) Record of
their permanent identification on the VS Form 1-27 under which authority they
move.
(9)
Failure to comply with the above provisions for response to a positive bovine
trichomoniasis test shall result in quarantine of all cattle in the
non-compliant herd under provisions of ORS
596.392(4).
Notes
Stat. Auth.: ORS 591 & 596
Stats. Implemented: ORS 596.392
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