Current through September 17, 2024
Section 23-11-010 - Official Testing - Cattle Brucellosis010.01 Except as provided in 23 NAC 11-010.01A and B, below, all market test cattle are sold or bartered through a dealer concentration point shall be brucellosis tested in the manner prescribed below. The exceptions are as follows: 010.01A Cattle sold to immediate slaughter need not be tested and;010.01B Cattle purchased by the dealer from farms, ranches and feedlots may be purchased without a negative test if they are properly identified as prescribed in these regulations, and if, within seven (7) days, they are either given an official brucellosis test, or delivered to a market, or sold to immediate slaughter.010.02 The official brucellosis testing procedure shall be the standard plate test. Results of the standard plate test shall be confirmed in the State-Federal Laboratory by the same testing procedure. Standard plate test classifications are as follows:
Official Vaccinates | All Others |
1:50 | 1:100 | 1:200 | | 1:50 | 1:100 | 1:200 | |
- | - | - | NEGATIVE | - | - | - | NEGATIVE |
1 | - | - | NEGATIVE | 1 | - | - | SUSPECT |
+ | - | - | NEGATIVE | + | - | - | SUSPECT |
+ | 1 | - | SUSPECT | + | 1 | - | SUSPECT |
+ | + | - | SUSPECT | + | + | - | REACTOR |
+ | + | 1 | SUSPECT | + | + | 1 | REACTOR |
+ | + | + | REACTOR | + | + | + | REACTOR |
23 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 11, § 010