USDA APHIS Updates ASF Response Plans

USDA APHIS Updates ASF Response Plans

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is pleased to announce significant updates to the African Swine Fever (ASF) response plans for domestic pig and feral swine response. These updates are the result of intensive collaborations between the APHIS ASF Technical Working Group; APHIS programs including Veterinary Services, Wildlife Services, International Services, Plant Protection and Quarantine Preclearance Programs, and Emergency Regulatory and Compliance Services; the ASF Harvest Establishment Working Group, and the United States Animal Health Association Swine Committee.

The updated materials are listed below and include a revised ASF Redbook, Harvest Facility Response Plans, Control Area Permit Templates, and responder “Playbooks” for domestic pigs and feral swine.  All of these materials are linked to the APHIS ASF response page.

• African Swine Fever Response Plan: The Red Book (July 2023)
• ASF Response: The Red Book Presentation (July 18, 2023)
• Overview of the ASF Response Plan: The Red Book (July 2023)

• Declaration of Extraordinary Emergency & 72-hour National Movement Standstill(July 10, 2023)
• ASF Domestic Pigs Playbook(July 28, 2023)
• ASF Feral Swine Playbook(July 28, 2023)
• Infected/Positive Meat Harvest Facility Template(May 15, 2023)
• Contact Meat Harvest Facility (Contact Premises) in a Free Area Template(May 15, 2023)
• Non-Infected Meat Harvest Facility in a Control Area Template(May 15, 2023)
• Off-Site Rendering Facility(July 17, 2023)
• Spray Dried Blood/Plasma Facility(July 17, 2023)
• National Continuity of Business: Standardized Permitting Guidance (by Type of Movement)(July 17, 2023)
• ASF COB Permitting Presentation(July 17, 2023)
• Permit Templates: Movement to Slaughter from Control Area (July 17, 2023)
• Cull Pigs
• Market Swine
• Sow Boars
• Permit Templates: Transfer Movements (July 17, 2023)
• Wean Pigs to Nursery/Finish
• Gilts to Sow Farm
• Nursery to Finishing
• Semen Boar Studs
• Sows Parity

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