Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on Administration of Epizootic Prevention of Domestic Animals and Fowls
Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on Administration of Epizootic Prevention of Domestic Animals and Fowls
Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on Administration of Epizootic Prevention of Domestic Animals and Fowls
January 18, 1997
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 (Objective and Basis)
These Provisions are formulated in accordance with the "Regulations on Epizootic Prevention of Domestic Animals and Fowls" and other related provisions and in line with actual circumstances in Shanghai, for the purposes of preventing and eliminating infectious diseases(including parasitoses, the same below) of domestic animals and fowls (hereinafter referred to as stock and fowl), protecting animal husbandry production, and safeguarding the people' s health.
Article 2 (Definitions)
Domestic animals referred to in these Provisions shall mean pigs, oxen, sheep, rabbits, dogs and so on.
Domestic fowls referred to in these Provisions shall mean chickens, ducks, geese, quails and so on.
Stock and fowl products referred to in these provisions shall mean eggs kept for hatching, and meat, fat, oil, viscera, skin, hide, blood, wool, hair, feather, bones, hooves and others of stock and fowl that have not been well prepared yet.
Article 3 (Classification of Infectious Diseases)
The infectious diseases of stock and fowl are classified under three types:
Class:Foot-and-mouth disease, blue tongue disease, rinderpest, bovine pleuropneumonia, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, African swine fever, swine fever, infectious swine vesicular disease, fowl plague(Type A influenza), African horse fever.
Class: Anthrax, brucellosis, tuberculosis, paratuberculosis (Johne' s disease), rabies, epidemic encephalitis B, swine erysipelas, swine plague(pasteurellosis), swine mycoplasmal pneumonia, swine treponemal dysentery, swine atrophic rhinitis, enzootic bovine leukosis, bovine ephemeral fever, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, mucosal disease, sheep pox, caprine arthritis/encephalitis, Maedivisna disease, glanders, Newcastle disease, fowl cholera, Marek' s disease, avian leukosis, pullorum disease, duck plague, gosling plague, rabbit viral septicaemia (temporary designation), rabbit clostridial diarrhea, rabbit treponemosis and rabbit haemorrhagic septicaemia.
Class : Mange and scab, leptospirosis, Japanese schistosomiasis, toxoplasmosis, piroplasmosis, trypanosomisais, trichinosis, swine cysticercosis, echinococcosis and coccidiosis.
Article 4 (Administrative Departments)
The Shanghai Municipal Agricultural Commission (SMAC) is the administrative department of epizootic prevention and quarantine of stock and fowl in Shanghai.
The district or county stock administrative departments are responsible for administration of epizootic prevention and quarantine of stock and fowl within their jurisdiction.
The SMAC and stock veterinary institutions under the district and county stock administrative departments are in charge of epizootic prevention and quarantine of stock and fowl according to their respective functions, which are the following:
1. To organize the implementing of epizootic prevention and quarantine of stock and fowl and of stock and fowl products within their jurisdiction;
2. To be responsible for investigation, surveillance and circulation of notice of epizootic diseases, and to organize the diagnosing of difficult and complicated diseases and the eradicating of epizootic diseases;
3. To be responsible for the organizing of science dissemination activities, technical guidance, and popularization of technology relevant to veterinary sanitation of stock and fowl epizootic prevention and quarantine within their jurisdiction.
The city' s administrative departments of foreign economic and trade, commodity inspection, animal and plant quarantine, sanitation, industry and commerce, business, public security, and communications and transportation should, according to law and within the confines of respective functions, co-ordinate with the SMAC to do a good job of the city' s stock and fowl epizootic prevention.
Chapter II Prevention of Infectious Diseases of Stock and Fowl
Article 5 (Anti-epizootic Requirements for Stock and Fowl Breeders)
Stud stock and fowl raised by livestock improving stations (including livestock breeding stations and multiplication stations), stud stock and fowl farms and breeding specialized households should have no infectious diseases listed under Article 3 of these Provisions.
In units where stud stock and fowl are imported, the stud stock and fowl should be isolated upon arrival for a certain period of time and only after confirmation of no infectious diseases listed under Article 3 of these Provisions can they be used for production.
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