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The National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) provides laboratory services for the US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). It operates from Ames, Iowa and Plum Island Animal Disease Center at Plum Island (New York). The NVSL provides a wide variety of information and services, centered on ...
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) based in Riverdale, Maryland responsible for protecting animal health, animal welfare, and plant health. APHIS is the lead agency for collaboration with other agencies to protect U.S. agriculture from invasive pests and ...
On Friday, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced it will be implementing its National Milk Testing Strategy to help combat the spread of bird flu in dairy cattle ...
The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is a biosafety level 4 research laboratory in Manhattan, Kansas, operated by the United States Department of Agriculture. The facility opened in June 2023. [1] The facility is designed to combat biological threats involving human, zoonotic, and foreign animal diseases.
"USDA's additional testing is appropriate to ensure public health is protected and to stop the spread of animal disease," said Sarah Little, spokesperson for the Meat Institute, an industry group ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it will begin testing for the H5N1 bird flu virus in milk throughout the nation. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Animal welfare is concerned with the humane treatment of animals but does not oppose all uses of animals, while animal rights is concerned with ending all human use of animals. [73] The largest American animal nonprofit, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) , is an animal welfare organization.
The nation’s milk supply must be tested for the bird flu virus H5N1 under a new order announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The rules require unpasteurized milk samples ...