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Showing only stories from the USDA category: US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians. -- show all categories
April 9, 2024 —
USDA issues alert to changes in the endorsement process for mail in international health certificate. Due to staffing and workload, starting May 01,2024, all mailed in international health...
March 22, 2024 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has created a higher-graded position for veterinarians in response to long-standing challenges in the federal...
March 20, 2024 —
USDA has a new Animals Topics page which includes a diverse array of USDA animal agriculture resources and support together in one place. View the page at https://www.usda.gov/topics/animals. The new...
March 20, 2024 —
For the second year, the U.S Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is inviting partners to collaborate on the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)...
March 20, 2024 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) expertly navigated complex and evolving issues to protect U.S. agriculture and natural resources in 2023....
March 12, 2024 —
Food animal veterinarians are critical to maintaining a healthy, secure, and safe food supply and for safeguarding the health and well-being of food animals. Today, there is a growing shortage of...
February 20, 2024 —
In 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS), in collaboration with the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), conducted its...
February 1, 2024 —
The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) completed its biennial review of the Biological Select Agents and Toxins (BSAT) list. As a...
January 3, 2024 —
APHIS Veterinary Services (VS) is updating the Japanese Encephalitis (JE) Response Strategy and invites feedback from key stakeholders. View the draft HERE. JE is not currently found in the United...
November 7, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will provide up to $500,000 to Tribes and Tribal organizations to further animal disease prevention,...
October 29, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing the appointment of 21 new members and nine returning members to the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF)....
October 28, 2023 —
On Nov. 1, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service will begin a one-year sampling program of domestic beef, pork and Siluriformes fish to determine levels of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds....
October 18, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing a new partnership between the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) and the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN). USDA's...
October 11, 2023 —
The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is pleased to announce significant updates to the African Swine Fever (ASF) response plans for...
October 2, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is hosting its third annual African Swine Fever (ASF) Action Week from October 2 - 6, 2023. We are...
August 28, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is reopening the proposed rule comment period that would amend disease regulations to provide a National...
August 19, 2023 —
The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking comments on a proposed rule to amend regulations governing its Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection program user fees. APHIS and the...
July 31, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is continuing to advance animal disease preparedness and response through its Farm Bill animal health...
July 13, 2023 —
Each year, we have the honor of sharing the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services' (APHIS) achievements through our Impact Report. In 2022, we celebrated APHIS' 50th anniversary. We did this...
July 12, 2023 —
The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced 12 awards totaling more than $3.2 million in cooperative agreement funding to create...
July 5, 2023 —
The Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) recently added CVB Notice 23-06: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Genes in Veterinary Biologics Products to its website. The intended purpose of this notice is...
July 3, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) paid nearly $9 million in 2022 to ease the educational debt load of 89 veterinarians through the...
June 24, 2023 —
The newest video in the ongoing series, Feral Swine in America: Chapter Six- Louisiana, looks at the impacts feral swine have on alligators and agriculture in Louisiana and the disease risk they pose...
June 14, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that it is implementing a multi-step effort aimed at strengthening the substantiation of animal-raising claims. This action builds on the...
June 1, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is awarding $566,626 to support four new cooperative agreements with tribal partners through the...
May 26, 2023 —
The USDA and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate officials celebrated the dedication and ribbon-cutting of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. This...
May 10, 2023 —
Food animal veterinarians are critical to maintaining a healthy, secure, and safe food supply. Today, there is a critical shortage of food animal veterinarians in both private and public practice,...
April 25, 2023 —
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) published a new 5-year strategic plan. It incorporates input we received from stakeholders on the...
April 25, 2023 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is awarding $2.29 million through the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) Farm Bill...
March 22, 2023 —
A diverse panel has accepted U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Thomas Vilsack's invitation to serve on the National Wildlife Services Advisory Committee (NWSAC). The 20 members,...
The complete archive, including older stories, is here
Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues