APHIS Updates NPIP Program Standards to Implement Primary Breeder Compartmentalization Program for HPAI

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APHIS Updates NPIP Program Standards to Implement Primary Breeder Compartmentalization Program for HPAI

 

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is updating its National Poultry Improvement Plan program standards to include the processes and procedures for the poultry primary breeding industry to participate in a compartmentalization program for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Compartmentalization allows a country to define and manage animal groups with a distinct health status and common biosecurity program, following World Organization for Animal Health guidelines.  The updated standards will take effect on February 13, 2017.  After the program is fully implemented, and if accepted by our international trading partners, compartmentalization will help us maintain our markets for poultry genetics (day-old chicks and hatching eggs) in the face of an HPAI outbreak.  The program standards are on display today, and will officially publish in the Federal Register tomorrow.