This rule requires chronic wasting disease testing of red deer, elk and elk hybrids. There is no test available for live CWD susceptible animals. Tests must be conducted on brain tissue collected from dead CWD susceptible animals. This rule requires herd owners to have all the following tested for chronic wasting disease:
1. All CWD susceptible animals at least 16 months old that are shipped to slaughter.2. All CWD susceptible animals at least 16 months old whose carcasses (or any part of whose carcasses) leave the herd premises i.e. hunting enclosures. A yearly surveillance plan may be adopted, with written permission from the State Veterinarian, that will substitute for testing of each hunted animal.3. A herd owner enrolled in Mississippi's herd monitoring program (see below) must also test CWD susceptible animals at least 16 months old that die on the herd premises, even if their carcasses do not leave the herd premises. No live CWD susceptible animals may be shipped from a herd unless that herd is enrolled in the monitoring program.4. NOTE: A herd owner may collect and ship antler velvet without testing the live CWD susceptible animals from which the velvet was collected. But if a CWD susceptible animals dies from handling related to velvet collection, the CWD susceptible animals must be tested for chronic wasting disease.2 Miss. Code. R. 101-2-06-106
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-3.ADOPTED NOVEMBER 20, 2002.