The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Friday that its avocado inspection program in Michoacan, Mexico, has restarted and avocado exports to the United States have resumed following a
Continue Reading U.S. again allows import of Mexican avocados following threat against U.S. inspector
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s job of keeping African Swine Fever out of the United States is not helped by stepped up and all too common meat smuggling.
Whether commingled in those
Continue Reading Meat smugglers are out to breach U.S. borders, endangering pork industry
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has begun a new collaborative effort to study antimicrobial use and resistance on commercial swine farms in the Midwest.
Each year in the United States, at
Continue Reading APHIS collaborates on antimicrobial use and resistance study
A candidate vaccine, known as ASFV-G-DI177l—efficiently protects against African swine fever, USDA announced Thursday.
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) published new research that highlights a new vaccine candidate that has been shown to prevent and
Continue Reading Vaccine finally offers pork producers a defense against African Swine Fever Virus
The Chief Veterinary Officer in Haiti on Sept. 20 reported a positive case of African swine fever (ASF) to the World Organisation for Animal Health. The sample was collected from a pig in a province
Since the current African Swine Fever (ASF) panzootic began in the Liaoning province of China in 2018, the United States and Canada have kept the pig virus out of North America. But, in July, USDA’s
Continue Reading Urgent action needed to curb the spread of African Swine Fever in the Americas
Livestock producers represented by the Billings, MT cattlemen’s group known as R-CALF say they have a “right” to use “traditional low-cost methods related to animal identification and traceability.”
But USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
Continue Reading Federal court in Wyoming asked to block RFID technology
“Oh give me land, lots of lands, and the starry skies above. Don’t fence me in…”
The Humane Society of the United States, Mercy for Animals, and Farm Sanctuary are getting the U.S. District Court
Continue Reading Alternative model for bird flu containment gets court review
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), has backed off its July 5, 2020, Federal Register Notice that would have required the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tags on all adult cattle
Continue Reading USDA starts formal rulemaking process for RFID ear tags
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have developed a protocol to help ensure bilateral trade will continue if African swine fever
