Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 23 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 11 - LIVESTOCK DEALER REGULATIONS
Section 23-11-010 - Official Testing - Cattle Brucellosis

Universal Citation: 23 NE Admin Rules and Regs ch 11 ยง 010

Current through November 25, 2023

010.01 Except as provided in 23 NAC 11-010.01A and B, below, all market test cattle are sold or bartered through a dealer concentration point shall be brucellosis tested in the manner prescribed below. The exceptions are as follows:

010.01A Cattle sold to immediate slaughter need not be tested and;

010.01B Cattle purchased by the dealer from farms, ranches and feedlots may be purchased without a negative test if they are properly identified as prescribed in these regulations, and if, within seven (7) days, they are either given an official brucellosis test, or delivered to a market, or sold to immediate slaughter.

010.02 The official brucellosis testing procedure shall be the standard plate test.

Results of the standard plate test shall be confirmed in the State-Federal Laboratory by the same testing procedure. Standard plate test classifications are as follows:

Official Vaccinates All Others
1:50 1:100 1:200 1:50 1:100 1:200
- - - NEGATIVE - - - NEGATIVE
1 - - NEGATIVE 1 - - SUSPECT
+ - - NEGATIVE + - - SUSPECT
+ 1 - SUSPECT + 1 - SUSPECT
+ + - SUSPECT + + - REACTOR
+ + 1 SUSPECT + + 1 REACTOR
+ + + REACTOR + + + REACTOR

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