Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

specifically producers raising ruminant animals. Currently, there is no available cure or medical treatment that can stop this disease. A producer’s best defense mechanism is to prevent the disease from reaching his/her herd, and to eliminate any infected animals at the first symptoms of the disease. The disease I am referring to is Johne’s Disease. Johne’s Disease, according to the United State Department of Agriculture – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, is “a contagious, chronic and usually

me wonder how people can be so cruel to animals. I have taken a recent interest in learning more about animal testing and let me tell you I am completely against it. I am against it because the way they treat the animals is inhumane, the acts they created are not helping, and because some of the experiments are not beneficial to human life. The definition that the Humane Society International gave for animal testing is performing procedures on living animals for further research in biology, diseases

Animal Testing for Humanity      Animal research is vital to human existence. This testing enables doctors to find treatments and cures for various diseases and aliments. The people, who object and think that 'mad' scientists preform all animal research, merely do not understand the importance. There are many regulatory acts protecting the animals in experiments, therefore proving that ending animal research all together would be a harsh blow to society.      The regulations, such as the

Veterinary Division, APHIS did not become an agency until 1972. After Congress passed The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) in 1966 to provide for the regulation of warm blooded animals used in research, bred for commercial sale, exhibited to the public, or commercially transported. The law requires minimum standards of animal care to be established and enforced. APHIS was the realigning of different animal and plant regulatory offices. The intent was to group functions that rely on similar professional disciplines

Yonkers OIG South Broadway Business Improvement District & USDA OIG Plant Protection and Quarantine Preclearance Offshore Program The following report will show the similarities and differences between the form and structure of the Yonkers OIG South Broadway Business Improvement District audit and USDA OIG Plant Protection and Quarantine Preclearance Offshore Program audit. Directed by Yonkers’s City Council Resolution No. 52-2008, the Yonkers OIG conducted an operational and financial review of

Regulations and standards are written and enforced by several state and federal agencies (Dunlap, n.d.). Some of these agencies include the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and

scientists to work with. Experiments conducted with animal experimentation resulted in the development of treatments for many once thought incurable. Most of our basic medical knowledge was taught from late biomedical research experiments. Two associations such as AWA and APHIS are dedicated towards the humane use of animals in biomedical research. AWA or the Animal Welfare Act ensures the welfare of the animals and APHIS Plant Health Inspection Service is the enforcer for AWA’s provisions. The leading

are multiple regulations that cover the ethics of animal testing. The federal agencies that can regulate biomedical research are the Public Health Service (PHS) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), they implement federal regulations through the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). The PHS base their policy animal subject use on The Health Research Extension Act of 1985. The policy covers living vertebrate animals for PHS supported research, training, or biological

consumption of genetically modified food safe? There is a huge debate in the food industry on whether these foods have a huge effect on us. There is no statistical proven evidence or facts that genetically modified foods imposes a high risk to humans, animals or the environment. With the high demand of food supply, created by the people that live in this world, the high yield made possible by pesticide control is very much needed to supply us with affordable food. Also, high crop yields are financially

The Controversy of Testing on Animals Facilities that use animals for teaching, experimentations, surgery or testing purposes are known as research facilities. Currently, there are twelve animal research facilities in the state of Alabama ("General Information on Animal Research"). There are many different reasons why animals are used for research. Animals are used to test the products used in cosmetics, for biomedical research, for military defense and food production. Many people including