Section 345IAC5-2-28. "Low-risk commercial flock", "low-risk exposed animal", and "low-risk goat" defined

   (a) "Low-risk commercial flock" means a flock composed of commercial whitefaced, whitefaced cross, or commercial hair sheep or commercial goats that meet the following requirements:

(1) The sheep and goats were born in and have resided throughout their lives in flocks with no known risk factors for scrapie, including exposure to female blackfaced sheep.

(2) The flock never has:

(A) contained a scrapie-positive female, suspect female, or high-risk animal; or

(B) been an infected, exposed, or source flock or a flock under investigation.

(3) The animals are identified using identification recognized for breeding animals in 345 IAC 1-2.6.

(4) The flock is located in a state where in the preceding ten (10) years low-risk commercial flock has not been designated a source or infected flock.

  (b) "Low-risk exposed animal" means an exposed animal that meets one (1) or more of the following sets of circumstances:

(1) The animal's exposure was to a positive animal that:

(A) was not born in the flock; and

(B) did not lamb in the flock or enclosure where the exposed animal resided.

(2) The exposed animal most likely resided in the infected or source flock only before scrapie was introduced to the premises based on the flock history or five (5) years of known nonexposure.

(3) The state veterinarian determines that the animal was:

(A) maintained at a location or during a time when infection was highly unlikely to have occurred; and

(B) not exposed to the lambing or kidding of an infected animal, in an infected or source flock, or lambing or kidding area before it had been cleaned and disinfected.

(4) The animal is male and was not born in an infected or source flock.

(5) The animal is a wether.

  (c) "Low-risk goat" means a goat that is not scrapie-positive, suspect, high-risk, or exposed, that has not been commingled with sheep other than sheep from low-risk commercial flocks, and is from one (1) of the following states:

(1) A state in which scrapie has not been identified in a goat during the preceding ten (10) years.

(2) A state in which scrapie has been identified in a goat during the preceding ten (10) years, but one (1) of the following set of requirements applies:

(A) The scrapie-positive goat was not born in the state or it:

(i) resided in the state for less than seventy-two (72) months; and

(ii) did not kid while in the state.

(B) The scrapie-positive goat was commingled with sheep, but the flock records allowed a complete epidemiologic investigation to be completed with all resulting infected, source, and exposed goat herds completing flock plans and compliant with postexposure monitoring and management plan.

(Indiana State Board of Animal Health; 345 IAC 5-2-28; filed Jan 5, 2006, 8:00 a.m.: 29 IR 1541; readopted filed Aug 16, 2012, 8:27 a.m.: 20120912-IR-345120197RFA; filed Aug 22, 2014, 4:04 p.m.: 20140917-IR-345140057FRA)