USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) updated requirements for dairy cattle as follows:
- Clinical lactating dairy cattle are ineligible for interstate movement or movement to slaughter.
- Nonlactating dairy cattle – including heifers, dry cows and bull calves – are not currently subject to testing for interstate movement due to their risk profile.
- Prior to interstate movement, lactating dairy cattle are required to receive a negative test for Influenza A virus at an approved National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) laboratory using an NAHLN approved assay.
- Lactating dairy cattle from herds which have tested positive for Influenza A are not eligible for interstate movement for thirty (30) days from the most recent collection of any sample that tests positive from any individual animal in the herd. After the 30-day period, animals must be tested again for movement.
- Nonclinical lactating dairy cattle moving interstate direct to slaughter are not required to have a premovement test but must move on a certificate of veterinary inspection or other documentation of movement approved by the sending and receiving state animal health officials and provided to the sending and receiving state animal health officials.
- Clinical lactating dairy cattle are ineligible for interstate movement or movement to slaughter.