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Aerial view of USDA s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Future FMD research will be moved inland to the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Kansas. Zoetis seeks approval to bring live Foot and Mouth Disease virus into the U.S. mainland to develop a vaccine.
Livestock industry groups are supportive of USDA’s proposal to adopt new technology in Foot and Mouth Disease vaccines, as well as the establishment of a robust FMD vaccine bank. In new comments submitted Jan. 4, additional comments were made by the National Pork Producers Council and the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association on a Zoetis-manufactured vaccine on the review process and the manufacturing of the vaccine domestically.
BY U.S. Senate News Release | January 3, 2021
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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), John Thune (R-SD) and Pat Roberts (R-KS), who serves as the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Forestry and Nutrition Committee, today applauded the signing into law of their bipartisan legislation to ensure the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) chief drone policy committee includes representation for agriculture, forestry, and rural America. The
Drone Advisory Committee for the 21
st Century Act will ensure that the FAA provides representation for local government officials, including those from county and tribal governments, on the Drone Advisory Committee (DAC).
The United States Department of Agriculture has updated its nutritional guidelines for all Americans, continuing to recommend limiting red meat and saturated