La. Admin. Code tit. 7 § XXI-723

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XXI-723 - Sale and Use of Brucella abortus Vaccine (Formerly Section 319)

A. The sale and use of Brucella abortus vaccine shall be restricted to Louisiana accredited veterinarians and to Livestock Sanitary Board approved non-veterinary personnel who administer the vaccine under the supervision of state-federal veterinarians.

B. Biological supply houses and their distributors are hereby required to send to the Livestock Sanitary Board a copy of the invoices on all shipments of Brucella abortus vaccine into and within, the state of Louisiana.

C. Veterinarians, drug stores, biological houses, and all other wholesale and retail distributors of Brucella abortus vaccine, who sell Brucella abortus vaccine to persons other than Louisiana accredited veterinarians, shall be prosecuted as prescribed by state law.

D.Brucella abortus vaccine will be administered in accordance with the method approved by the United States Department of Agriculture.

E. All heifer calves between 4 and 12 months of age must be official Brucellosis calfhood vaccinated, prior to being sold.

F. Adult Vaccination of Cattle

1. Adult vaccination of female cattle 12 months old or older, for Brucellosis, may be performed on an individual herd plan by state or federal veterinarians, provided the owner signs the official agreement to comply with the following provisions:

a. test of entire herd and removal of Brucellosis reactors with Brucellosis vaccination completed within 10 days following herd test and removal of Brucellosis reactors;

b. all animals vaccinated as adults will be identified with an official AV tattoo in the right ear, preceded by the quarter of the year and followed by the last digit of the year, as well as the official metal ear tag (or individual animal registration tattoo or individual animal registration brand) and plastic bangle tag, which are to be correlated on test records with the official ear tag;

c. animals so vaccinated will be quarantined and tested on the schedule established in the herd plan. The quarantine will be released when the herd has a negative test, at least 180 days after the last reactor is removed from the herd. Exceptions to this regulation are steers and spayed heifers over 6 months of age.

2. Guidelines to conduct a referendum which would make Brucellosis testing and Brucellosis vaccination of all adult cows mandatory on a parish-wide basis.

a. The referendum shall be conducted by the Livestock Sanitary Board, in conjunction with the cattle producers' organizations. The referendum will be held within 90 days after issuance of the call for the referendum. All producers of cattle in the affected area shall be eligible to participate in the referendum.

b. The referendum would give all producers of cattle in the parish an opportunity to vote for or against the referendum, which would require all cattle to be tested for Brucellosis and any herd which has one or more reactors, on more than one herd test, would have to be adult vaccinated for Brucellosis and tested according to the herd plan and adult vaccination agreement. In the absence of a herd plan, the herd would have to be tested at intervals of 180 days or less.

c. If a majority of the eligible cattle producers vote in favor of the referendum, all producers of cattle in the area shall be required to test all their cattle and adult vaccinate any infected herds as described in §723. F 1

d. The following herds would be exempt from the testing requirements:

i. certified Brucellosis free herds; and

ii. dairy herds identified as having negative Brucellosis ring test.

e. The following infected herds would be exempt from mandatory adult vaccination:

i. herds of registered cattle; and

ii. herds of cattle comprised of all calfhood vaccinated cows.

La. Admin. Code tit. 7, § XXI-723

Promulgated by the Department of Agriculture, Livestock Sanitary Board, LR 11:239 (March 1985), amended LR 11:615 (June 1985), LR 12:289 (May 1986), LR 14:222 (April 1988), repromulgated by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Office of Animal Health and Food Safety and the Board of Animal Health, LR 40:952 (May 2014).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 3:2093.