APHIS Proposes to Amend Regs on Animal Health Status of Foreign Regions
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to amend the regulations that govern the importation of animals and animal products by revising the list of factors APHIS considers when evaluating the animal health status of a foreign region.…
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Additionally, APHIS is proposing criteria for considering a region to be historically free of a specific disease. These changes would make clearer the type of information APHIS needs from a requesting region to most expeditiously conduct an evaluation. Comments are due by February 27, 2012. Related USDA press release available here.