Carol J. Elkins
Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:02:58 -0700
At 02:21 PM 10/10/2005 -0500, Mary Swindell wrote:
Do you know whether the tamper-proof Premier scrapie tags (for the voluntary scrapie-free certification program) are likely to be acceptable for the NAIP?
No one knows that yet. Makes it really hard to know how many of those expensive little buggers to order, huh?
Diane Sutton, national scrapie program coordinator, indicated to me earlier this year that the Scrapie Flock Certification Program (SFCP) would, in all likelihood, be supplanted by the National Animal ID Program. The SFCP's main purpose has been to assure the rest of the world that certified flocks are scrapie-free, thus enabling them to be exported. There is no use for the SFCP internal to the U.S., except to enable semen entering the U.S. to be distributed (via USDA protocol) to people enrolled in the certification program. So when the National Animal ID System (NAIS) is implemented, it will effectively accomplish both tasks currently bestowed upon the scrapie certification program.
So, once again, I suspect those of us enrolled in SFCP will be stuck with having to change to a new tagging system, no matter which way the wind blows. And we'll have to train our state veterinarians and our county extension agents like we've been doing ever since the scrapie program began.
Sigh. Carol _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info mailing list Visit the list's homepage at Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info@lists.blackbellysheep.info http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info