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Managing the Plan Itself General Conference Committee For More Information
In all, 48 U.S. States have Official State Agencies The NPIP’s General Conference Committee assists To find out more about the NPIP and how you United States Department of Agriculture
working with USDA–APHIS to manage the Plan. USDA in planning, organizing, and conducting can participate in the Plan, please write to Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
The NPIP Technical Committee is made up of the biennial NPIP Conference. The Committee Program Aid No. 1857
Industry, State, and Federal members and meets recommends whether new proposals should be National Poultry Improvement Plan
biennially to provide oversight. considered by delegates to the Conference and— 1498 Klondike Road, Suite 101
during the interim between Plan Conferences— Conyers, GA 30094–5169
National Poultry
The NPIP has certified 130 authorized laboratories represents the cooperating States in advising Improvement Plan:
nationwide to perform the various tests necessary USDA with respect to administrative procedures or call
to make sure that Plan flocks and premises are and interpretations of the NPIP provisions in the (770) 922–3496 Seventy Years of Poultry
properly maintained. The rules on these matters CFR. Improvement
are also listed in Title 9, CFR: and be sure to visit our Web site:
Committee members also help USDA evaluate http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/npip
Blood Testing, and Serological Laboratory comments received from interested persons
Protocols concerning proposed amendments to the NPIP We look forward to hearing from you.
§§ 147.1–147.9 provisions. The Committee recommends to
the Secretary of Agriculture any changes in the
Bacteriological Examination Procedures provisions of the Plan necessitated by unforeseen
§§ 147.10–147.17 conditions when postponement until the next
NPIP Conference would seriously impair the
Sanitation Procedures operation of the program. Finally, the General
§§ 147.21–147.25 Conference Committee serves as a forum for the
study of problems relating to poultry health and
As another service of the Plan, APHIS and the makes specific recommendations to the Secretary
Official State Agencies give hands-on workshops concerning ways in which USDA may assist the
for NPIP participants on such subjects as industry in solving these problems. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits
Salmonella Isolation and Identification, discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis
Diagnosis of Avian Mycoplasmas, and of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where
Diagnosis of Avian Influenza. applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status,
religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political
beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual’s
income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not
all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with
disabilities who require alternative means for communication
of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.)
should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720–2600
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(voice and TDD). To file a complaint of discrimination, write
to USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence
Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250–9410, or call (800)
795–3272 (voice) or (202) 720–6382 (TDD). USDA is an equal
opportunity provider and employer.
Issued January 2006
The Objective of the NPIP . . . Participation Inspections
Subpart Provisions for Participating
. . .is to provide a cooperative Industry–State– Participation in the NPIP is open to all producers The integrity of the NPIP is maintained through Flocks, Hatcheries, and Dealers
The National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) Federal program through which new diagnostic who can make their poultry, game-bird, ratite, or a system of random inspections managed by
technology can be effectively applied to the waterfowl facilities meet Plan requirements. The State cooperators. Each participating hatchery The CFR section on the NPIP is divided into
improvement of poultry and poultry products first step is to demonstrate, to the satisfaction is inspected at least once a year to satisfy the subparts by product:
was started in the early 1930s to coordinate
throughout the country. The provisions of the of the applicant’s Official State Agency, that Official State Agency that the operations of B—Egg-Type Chickens
NPIP—both technical and management—have his or her facilities, personnel, and practices the hatchery are in compliance with the Plan’s C—Meat-Type Chickens
State programs aimed at the elimination of
been developed jointly by industry members are adequate for carrying out the applicable provisions. D—Turkeys
and State and Federal officials. These provisions provisions of the NPIP. Once accepted into the E—Waterfowl, Exhibition Poultry, and Game Birds
pullorum disease from commercial poultry.
establish standards for the evaluation of poultry Plan, participants have to maintain in the Plan Recordkeeping is another important element in
breeding stock and hatchery products with all of their poultry hatching-egg supply flocks the Plan. The records of all flocks maintained Each participating hatchery is designated as a
Pullorum is a bacterial disease of poultry
respect to freedom from egg-transmitted and and hatchery operations in a given State. When primarily for production of hatching eggs are “National Plan Hatchery,” and each participating
hatchery-disseminated diseases. Through this a Plan participant has flocks in one or more examined annually by a State inspector. dealer as a “National Plan Dealer.”
that is transmitted from a hen to her chicks
work, the NPIP provides certification that poultry States, it is sometimes possible to reach a mutual
via the egg. By testing adult birds and and poultry products destined for interstate understanding and agreement, in writing, Supervision The following terms and illustrative logos can
and international shipment are free of all such between the participant’s own Official State be used only by (1) NPIP participants to describe
diseases. Agency and the counterpart agency in the other The Official State Agency may designate qualified their flocks and the products produced from
eliminating disease carriers from the breeding
State(s) regarding conditions of NPIP participation persons as “authorized agents” to do the sample them, and (2) States that have met the respective
flock, commercial chicken and turkey Administration and supervision. collecting and whole-blood testing provided requirements of the Plan:
for in the CFR at Title 9, §145.14. The Official
producers have eliminated this costly disease. The Plan is administered through a Memorandum Although the NPIP has several classifications State Agency must employ or authorize qualified
of Understanding between the Animal and Plant related to freedom from various diseases, the persons as State inspectors to (1) perform or
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. only required classification for Plan participation supervise the performance of the testing of
Department of Agriculture (USDA) and “Official is “U.S. Pullorum–Typhoid Clean.” participating flocks and (2) perform the official
State Agencies” in each of the 48 participating inspections necessary to verify compliance with
States. Individual producers in the Plan all sign a NPIP participants are entitled to use on their NPIP requirements.
memorandum of participation with their Official packaging the NPIP emblem reproduced here:
State Agency. Flock Provisions
This seal is a sign that
USDA–APHIS publishes the provisions of the NPIP the poultry products Specific sanitation and bird-identification
in Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) inside are safe and requirements for participating flocks can be
at sections (§§) 145 and 147. When the rules of wholesome. found in the CFR at Title 9, § 145.5.
the Plan need to be revised, APHIS consults with
producers and State poultry officials and submits Hatchery Provisions
all regulations to normal rulemaking procedures
before publishing them in the CFR. Specific sanitation requirements for participating
hatcheries are listed in the CFR at Title 9, § 145.6.
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