Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 35 - Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry
Chapter 30 - Consumer Protection
Subchapter 38 - Apiaries
Section 35:30-38-7 - American foulbrood quarantine
Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 35:30-38-7
Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a) Any apiary, appliances, structures, buildings or bees quarantined due to the presence of American foulbrood shall implement one of the following control measures:
(1) State-approved chemotherapy
treatment, including the feeding of antibiotics, if the bee disease has not
spread to the point of weakening the colony beyond the possibility of control
with chemotherapy treatments;
(2)
Burning the entire hive and contents, or, upon approval of the Department, the
contents of the diseased hives, including bees, combs and associated frames;
(A) Burning shall occur in an open
pit;
(B) Ashes shall be buried no
less than eighteen inches (18") below the surface of the soil;
(C) Disinfection by scorching the hive
bodies, covers, bottom boards, supers and appliances associated with
them.
(D) Frames may be boiled in
one pound of lye per ten (10) gallons water for not less than twenty (20)
minutes.
(3) Any other
method approved by the Department.
(b) The owner shall notify the Department of any corrective measures to be taken so Department personnel may be present during the measure.
(c) If no corrective action is taken within thirty (30) days, the infected or infested colonies shall be destroyed.
Added at 23 Ok Reg 878, eff 5-11-06
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