Indiana Administrative Code
Title 345 - INDIANA STATE BOARD OF ANIMAL HEALTH
Article 5 - SCRAPIE
Rule 2 - Definitions
Section 2-28 - "Low-risk commercial flock", "low-risk exposed animal", and "low-risk goat" defined
Universal Citation: 345 IN Admin Code 2-28
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 15-17-3-21
Affected: IC 15-17-3
Sec. 28.
(a) "Low-risk commercial flock" means a flock composed of commercial whitefaced, whitefaced cross, or commercial hair sheep or commercial goats that meet the following requirements:
(1) The sheep and
goats were born in and have resided throughout their lives in flocks with no
known risk factors for scrapie, including exposure to female blackfaced
sheep.
(2) The flock never has:
(A) contained a scrapie-positive female,
suspect female, or high-risk animal; or
(B) been an infected, exposed, or source
flock or a flock under investigation.
(3) The animals are identified using
identification recognized for breeding animals in 345 IAC 1-2.6.
(4) The flock is located in a state where in
the preceding ten (10) years low-risk commercial flock has not been designated
a source or infected flock.
(b) "Low-risk exposed animal" means an exposed animal that meets one (1) or more of the following sets of circumstances:
(1) The animal's exposure was
to a positive animal that:
(A) was not born in
the flock; and
(B) did not lamb in
the flock or enclosure where the exposed animal resided.
(2) The exposed animal most likely resided in
the infected or source flock only before scrapie was introduced to the premises
based on the flock history or five (5) years of known nonexposure.
(3) The state veterinarian determines that
the animal was:
(A) maintained at a location
or during a time when infection was highly unlikely to have occurred;
and
(B) not exposed to the lambing
or kidding of an infected animal, in an infected or source flock, or lambing or
kidding area before it had been cleaned and disinfected.
(4) The animal is male and was not born in an
infected or source flock.
(5) The
animal is a wether.
(c) "Low-risk goat" means a goat that is not scrapie-positive, suspect, high-risk, or exposed, that has not been commingled with sheep other than sheep from low-risk commercial flocks, and is from one (1) of the following states:
(1) A state in which scrapie has not been
identified in a goat during the preceding ten (10) years.
(2) A state in which scrapie has been
identified in a goat during the preceding ten (10) years, but one (1) of the
following set of requirements applies:
(A) The
scrapie-positive goat was not born in the state or it:
(i) resided in the state for less than
seventy-two (72) months; and
(ii)
did not kid while in the state.
(B) The scrapie-positive goat was commingled
with sheep, but the flock records allowed a complete epidemiologic
investigation to be completed with all resulting infected, source, and exposed
goat herds completing flock plans and compliant with postexposure monitoring
and management plan.
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