Notice2024-06942
Addition of Kosovo and Mozambique to the List of Regions Affected With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
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Published
April 2, 2024
Effective
September 29, 2023
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Agriculture DepartmentAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Abstract
We are advising the public that we have added Kosovo and Mozambique to the list of regions that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service considers to be affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). These actions follow our imposition of HPAI-related restrictions on avian commodities originating from or transiting Kosovo or Mozambique, as a result of the confirmation of HPAI in these countries.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22663-22664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06942]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2023-0087]
Addition of Kosovo and Mozambique to the List of Regions Affected
With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that we have added Kosovo and
Mozambique to the list of regions that the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service considers to be affected by highly pathogenic avian
influenza (HPAI). These actions follow our imposition of HPAI-related
restrictions on avian commodities originating from or transiting Kosovo
or Mozambique, as a result of the confirmation of HPAI in these
countries.
DATES: Kosovo and Mozambique were added to the list of regions APHIS
considers to be affected with HPAI,
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effective respectively on September 29, 2023, and October 20, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For the Kosovo listing, contact Dr.
Heather Sriranganathan, APHIS Veterinary Services, Regionalization
Evaluation Services, 4700 River Road, Riverdale, MD 20737; phone (717)
818-3582; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#96d7e5fdc4f3f1fff9f8f7faffecf7e2fff9f8d6e3e5f2f7b8f1f9e0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="236250487146444a4c4d424f4a5942574a4c4d63565047420d444c55">[email protected]</span></a>.
For the Mozambique listing, contact Dr. La'Toya Lane, APHIS
Veterinary Services, Regionalization Evaluation Services, 920 Main
Campus Drive, Suite 300, Raleigh, NC 27606; phone: (301) 550-1671;
email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#69281a023b0c0e00060708050013081d000607291c1a0d08470e061f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0f4e7c645d6a686660616e6366756e7b6660614f7a7c6b6e21686079">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The regulations in 9 CFR part 94 (referred
to below as the regulations) govern the importation of certain animals
and animal products into the United States to prevent the introduction
of various animal diseases, including Newcastle disease and highly
pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The regulations prohibit or restrict
the importation of live poultry, poultry meat, and other poultry
products from regions where these diseases are considered to exist.
Section 94.6 of the regulations contains requirements governing the
importation into the United States of carcasses, meat, parts or
products of carcasses, and eggs (other than hatching eggs) of poultry,
game birds, or other birds from regions of the world where HPAI exists
or is reasonably believed to exist. HPAI is an extremely infectious and
potentially fatal form of avian influenza in birds and poultry that,
once established, can spread rapidly from flock to flock. The Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) maintains a list of
restricted regions it considers affected with HPAI of any subtype on
the APHIS website at <a href="https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-and-animal-product-import-information/animal-health-status-of-regions">https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-and-animal-product-import-information/animal-health-status-of-regions</a>.
APHIS receives notice of HPAI outbreaks from veterinary officials
of the exporting country, from the World Organization for Animal Health
(WOAH),\1\ or from other sources the Administrator determines to be
reliable.
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\1\ The World Organization for Animal Health internationally
follows a British English spelling of ``organisation'' in its name;
also, it was formerly the Office International des Epizooties, or
OIE, but on May 28, 2022, the Organization announced that the
acronym was changed from OIE to WOAH.
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On August 21, 2023, APHIS became aware of a European Food Safety
Authority document reporting outbreaks of HPAI in Kosovo in 2022. On
September 25, 2023, the Kosovo Food and Veterinary Authority confirmed
the detection of HPAI in 2021 and 2022. In response to these reports,
on September 29, 2023, APHIS added Kosovo to the list of regions where
HPAI exists or is considered to exist, in compliance with Sec.
94.6(a)(2)(ii). On that same date, APHIS issued an import alert
notifying stakeholders that APHIS imposed restrictions on the
importation of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, avian hatching eggs,
unprocessed avian products and byproducts, and certain fresh poultry
commodities originating from or transiting Kosovo to mitigate risk of
HPAI introduction in the United States.
On October 17, 2023, the veterinary authorities of Mozambique
reported to the WOAH the occurrence of HPAI in that country. In
response to that report, on October 20, 2023, after confirming that
HPAI occurred in commercial birds and poultry, APHIS added Mozambique
to the list of regions where HPAI exists or is considered to exist, in
compliance with Sec. 94.6(a)(2)(ii). On that same day, APHIS issued an
import alert notifying stakeholders that APHIS imposed restrictions on
the importation of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, avian hatching
eggs, unprocessed avian products and byproducts, and certain fresh
poultry commodities originating from or transiting Mozambique to
mitigate risk of HPAI introduction into the United States.
With the publication of this notice, we are informing the public
that we have added Kosovo to the list of regions APHIS considers
affected with HPAI of any subtype, effective September 29, 2023; and
Mozambique to the list of regions APHIS considers affected with HPAI of
any subtype, effective October 20, 2023. This notice serves as an
official record and public notification of these actions.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1633, 7701-7772, 7781-7786, and 8301-8317; 21
U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.
Done in Washington, DC, this 26th day of March 2024.
Michael Watson,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-06942 Filed 4-1-24; 8:45 am]
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