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TITLE 4AGRICULTURE
PART 2TEXAS ANIMAL HEALTH COMMISSION
CHAPTER 55SWINE
RULE §55.5Pseudorabies

(i) Requirements for continuous flow feeder facilities in which there are no breeding animals on the premises. When provisions of the State-Federal-Industry Program Standards for Pseudorabies Eradication require surveillance testing of these feeder facilities for advancement of the state to the next stage of the eradication program, one of the following methods will be used to satisfy this requirement.

  (1) Collection of blood from a random sample of swine in the feeder facility in the following representation:

    (A) less than 100 head in the feeder facility--test 25;

    (B) 100-200 head--test 27;

    (C) 201-999 head--test 28;

    (D) 1,000 head and over--test 29.

  (2) Collection of blood from swine consigned from a feeder facility at slaughter using the criteria shown in paragraph (1) of this subsection, to determine the number of swine to be tested.

(j) Owner assistance. If ordered by the commission or its representative, the owner or caretaker of swine shall submit the swine and furnish labor and facilities used in normal operation in order that the swine may be tested, vaccinated, or otherwise handled in accordance with this chapter.


Source Note: The provisions of this §55.5 adopted to be effective January 2, 1978, 2 TexReg 4908; amended to be effective September 10, 1979, 4 TexReg 3080; amended to be effective July 1, 1990, 15 TexReg 3087; amended to be effective September 28, 1990, 15 TexReg 5360; amended to be effective November 22, 1991, 16 TexReg 6291; amended to be effective July 20, 1992, 17 TexReg 4750; amended to be effective August 15, 1995, 20 TexReg 5500; amended to be effective March 16, 2005, 30 TexReg 1441; amended to be effective June 12, 2013, 38 TexReg 3541; amended to be effective October 21, 2021, 46 TexReg 7044

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