Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 23 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 12 - LIVESTOCK AUCTION MARKET REGULATIONS
Section 23-12-011 - Official Testing - Cattle Brucellosis
Universal Citation: 23 NE Admin Rules and Regs ch 12 ยง 011
Current through September 17, 2024
011.01 All market test cattle that are sold or bartered through an auction market, except cattle sold to immediate slaughter, shall be brucellosis tested in the manner prescribed below.
011.02 The official brucellosis testing classifications shall be as follows:
011.02A The testing procedure to be utilized
in auction markets shall be the card test, conducted by the approved
veterinarian and confirmed in the State-Federal Laboratory by the same testing
procedure. Any animal which is positive to such test shall be classified as a
reactor. Any animal which is negative to such test shall be classified
negative.
011.02B Notwithstanding
23 NAC
12-011.02A, above,
any market may use the standard plate test in lieu of the card test upon a
signed, written request to the State Veterinarian and approval by the State
Veterinarian to conduct such test, which test shall thereafter be the sole test
used at such facility. 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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