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Impact Of The USDA-APHIS Final Rule, “Thresholds For De Minimis Activity And Exemptions From Licensing Under The Animal Welfare Act”-PART TWO.

The impact of USDA’s newly adopted final rule to certain exhibitors of farm animals remains unclear. A positive result of the rule is the definition of “domesticated farm-type animals.” Farm-type ...
Federal News Network

A Supreme Court securities case has frozen animal welfare enforcement across thousands of labs

"We do know from whistleblowers or anonymous people who talk to media that they find that Jarkesy has hamstrung [inspectors], ...
The Journal

USDA-APHIS to allow cattle bison imports from Mexico

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has announcing it will allow cattle and bison imports from Mexico. Announced on Feb. 1, imports are scheduled to resume ...
The Journal

USDA-APHIS issues CVB notice

As the number of cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in livestock herds continues to rise, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Animal Plant Health Inspection Service has issued Center for ...
Agri-Pulse

APHIS inspection change concern California avocado industry

The California Avocado Commission has expressed frustration over the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s lack of communication about changes in avocado import inspection. CAC made public ...
FreshFruitPortal.com

APHIS officializes Systems Approach suspension for Chilean table grape imports until new legal action

With the Systems Approach suspended "APHIS will only issue import permits for grapes treated with fumigation," the agency ...
AgWeb

USDA Proposes Amendments to APHIS’s Traceability Regulations

USDA published a proposed rule which would amend U.S. animal disease traceability regulations to require eartags in cattle and bison that are both visually and electronically readable — electronic ...
Post and Courier

USDA APHIS asks for help looking for Asian Longhorned Beetle by checking trees

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is asking the residents of South Carolina to look for and report the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB). APHIS ...
Yahoo Finance

NCLA Brief Accuses USDA and APHIS of Establishing Unlawful Federal Advisory Committees on RFID

Washington, D.C., Feb. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have violated the Federal Advisory Committee ...
Business Insider

USDA-APHIS Determines that Yield10 Bioscience’s Glufosinate Tolerant Camelina May Be Planted and Bred in the United States

-Yield10 Achieves a Significant Milestone in the Development of Camelina as a Commercial Crop for Producing Biofuels and Omega-3 Oils -On Track for Commercial Launch of Glufosinate Tolerant Camelina ...
JD Supra

Impact Of The USDA-APHIS Final Rule, “Thresholds For De Minimis Activity And Exemptions From Licensing Under The Animal Welfare Act”-PART ONE.

On June 4, the regulation titled “T hresholds for De Minimis Activity and Exemptions From Licensing Under the Animal W elfare Act” which purportedly implement[s] amendments to the Animal Welfare Act ...