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Texas agency proposes repeal of CWD herd certification program and seeks more flexible chronic‑wasting response rules
Summary
The commission voted to publish proposed rule changes that would repeal the voluntary Herd Certification Program and replace prescriptive 5‑year herd plans and containment zones with case‑by‑case epidemiological assessments and individualized herd plans.
The Texas Animal Health Commission approved publication of proposed rule amendments that would repeal the state’s participation in the federal Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Herd Certification Program (HCP) and adopt more flexible state rules for responding to CWD detections.
Why it matters: The change would remove the state’s existing HCP structure — a voluntary federal program that includes mandatory surveillance, 5‑year epidemiological traces and prescribed herd‑plan templates — and replace it with a rules framework allowing agency epidemiologists to tailor movement restrictions, herd plans…
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