USDA Posts Additional Animal Welfare Act Compliance Information

Today, APHIS is posting the inspection reports for registrants (including certain research facilities, and intermediate handlers and carriers that move animals) the agency regulates under the Animal Welfare Act. The reports posted are part of a comprehensive review of the documents the agency removed from its website in early February and are in the same redacted form as before.

 

To conduct the review, the entire agency search tool database was taken off line. As announced on Feb. 7, 2017, the agency will continue to review records and determine which information is appropriate for reposting.

 

APHIS is committed to ensuring the welfare of animals and continues to carry out the critical day-to-day work of ensuring the humane treatment of vulnerable animals through unannounced inspections, pre-compliance visits, horse protection inspections, and other activities.

 

The reposted information can be found on our website, here. In addition, some enforcement records (such as initial decision and orders, default decisions, and consent decisions) will continue to be available on the website of USDA’s Office of Administrative Law Judges, here.