Download Dept of Agriculture oversight of containment labs

Freeda E. Isaac, DVM
Director: Organisms, Vectors and Select Agents
National Center of Import Export
Veterinary Services
November 14, 2012
 Animal
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Welfare Act
9 CFR Section 1 – 4
Definitions, Licensing, Registration, Research
Facilities, Attending Veterinarians, Adequate
Veterinary Care, Identification of Animals, Stolen
Animals, Records, Compliance, Standards for
Transportation, Facilities, Operations, Animal
Health and Husbandry
Dogs, cats, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, nonhuman primates, marine mammals, other
warmblooded animals, animals for research
Not livestock
 Horse
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Protection Act
9 CFR Section 11, Horse Protection Regulations
Exhibitions, Scar Rule, prohibited devices,
equipment or practices which cause soreness.
 Plant
Protection Act
 7 CFR Section 340, Introduction of Organisms
and Products Altered or Produced Through
Genetic Engineering Which are Plant Pests or
Which There IS Reason to Believe Are Plant
Pests
 Permits – release, importation, interstate,
limited
 Inspections at ports of entry and facilities
 Plant
Protection Act
 7 CFR Sections 300 – 380
 Foreign and domestic quarantine notices
 Bees, plant pests, soil, stone, quarry
products, garbage
 Importation and interstate movement
 Export
 Noxious weed regulations
 Importation of seed and screenings
 Research facilities, containment
 Center
for Veterinary Biologics (CVB)
 Virus Serum Toxin Act
 Animal Health Protection Act
 9 CFR Sections 101 to 123
 Vaccines, bacterins, antisera, diagnostic kits,
and other products of biological origin to
ensure that the veterinary biologics available
for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment
of animal diseases are pure, safe, potent,
and effective.
 Vaccine companies
 National
Center for Import and Export (NCIE)
 Animal Health Protection Act
 9 CFR Sections 94 – 96, 122
 Import and Export of Organisms, Vectors and
Products
 Permitting for all livestock origin material
and material which are infectious for
livestock
 Laboratory inspections, primarily BSL1 and
BSL2, occasionally BSL3.
 VS
and PPQ
 Agriculture Bioterrorism Protection Act of
2002
 9 CFR 121, 7 CFR 331
 Possession, use and transfer of select agents
 Plant biocontainment laboratories and BSL2,
BSL3, BSL4, and BSL3Ag research facilities
 Registration, inspections, security, biosafety,
incident response, personnel suitability,
records, training, reporting.
Contact Information:
Freeda E. Isaac, DVM
Director: Organisms, Vectors and Select Agents
APHIS, VS, National Center for Import Export
4700 River Road, Unit 1
Riverdale, Maryland 20737
Phone: 301-851-3368
Email: [email protected]