APHIS Reopens Comment Period for Proposed Bovine BSE Import Rule
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said it's reopening the period to submit comments on its proposed rule to provide for new risk-based conditions for the importation of live bovines and products derived from bovines with regard to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease), published in the Federal Register on March 16, 2012. APHIS is now accepting comments until June 14, 2012. Comments on the proposed rule were originally due by May 15, 2012, but APHIS said it will accept comments that were submitted in the interim period between that date and publication of this extension of the comment period.
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(See ITT’s Online Archives 12031313 for summary of APHIS’ proposed rule, which would establish a system for classifying regions as to BSE risk that is largely consistent with the system employed by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).)