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Animal industry brief: traceability successes, new screw‑worm plan and request for brand inspection funding
Summary
Animal Industry Division leaders told lawmakers they met a one‑hour traceability target and developed a new emergency annex for new world screw worm, while asking the legislature for $300,000 supplemental and $300,000 ongoing for brand inspection due to rising costs.
John Keller, division director for the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food’s Animal Industry Division, told the appropriations subcommittee that the division met its performance target for animal trace completion (100% within one hour across eight traces) and has strengthened preparedness against foreign and domestic diseases.
Keller and state veterinarian Dr. Amanda Price described a new 28‑page annex to the Utah emergency…
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