Iowa Administrative Code
Agency 21 - Agriculture and Land Stewardship Department
Chapter 64 - Infectious and Contagious Diseases
Rule 21-64.47 - Definitions as Used in These Rules

(1) "Department" means the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Wallace State Office Building, Des Moines, Iowa.

(2) "Federal Office " means the Animal, Plant and Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Federal Building, Des Moines, Iowa 50309.

(3) "Brucellosis" means the disease of brucellosis in animals.

(4) "Brucellosis test" means the blood serum test for brucellosis, applied in accordance with a technique approved by the department.

(5) "B.R. T." means a brucellosis ring test as applied to milk and cream, and used as a presumptive test for locating possible brucellosis infected herds according to a technique approved by the department.

(6) "Brucellosis test classification " means the designation of animals tested by the methods of card test or rivanol or any other method approved jointly by the state and federal departments of agriculture.

(7) "Veterinarian" means a graduate of an approved veterinary school who is licensed and registered to practice veterinary medicine in this state.

(8) "Designated animals " means only the following named bovine animals: beef cattle, dairy cattle, American bison or "buffalo," and their bybrids.

This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code section I63A.9.