USDA/APHIS in the process of developing and/or finalizing two regulatory actions. New regulations for birds.

New content changes to the USDA/APHIS website, week of 05/24/21 - 06/04/21

New content changes to the USDA/APHIS website, week of 04/26/21.

New content changes to the USDA/APHIS website, 04/16/21.

USDA/APHIS new web content noted the week of March 15, 2021.

APHIS’ Animal Care program is rescinding this guideline, and the Tech Note on incentives (which was updated in May 2018), as it is no longer representative of the current agency policy for documenting Animal Welfare Act non-compliances.

The following change(s) were observed 12/14/20 to the “Publications, Forms and Guidance Documents” located on the USDA/APHIS website.

The following change(s) were observed last week to the “Publications, Forms and Guidance Documents” and “New Licensing Rule (APHIS-2017-0062)” located on the USDA/APHIS website.

On October 16, (2020), APHIS added two new publications to it’s website related to inspections.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will hold three virtual listening sessions to gather information to assist in the development of regulations that will ensure the humane care and treatment of birds not bred for use in research, consistent with the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

From 2017 to 2019, APHIS opened up two separate public comment periods for the proposed changes. During this time APHIS reports that they received 110,600 comments from “stakeholders”. Sounds like a lot? When you break it down it is a completely telling story:

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) today announced the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infection in a pet dog (German shepherd) in New York state.