Public Meetings

USDA recently completed public meetings to discuss animal disease traceability:

• Madison, Wisconsin, Transcript
  (Breakout sessions begin on page 100)
• Atlanta, Georgia, Transcript
  (Breakout sessions begin on page 104)
• Pasco, Washington, Transcript
  (Breakout sessions begin on page 80)
  

The documents below were shared with public meeting attendees in Madison, Atlanta, and Pasco. They share information about the traceability framework, as well as the Working Group’s current thinking about the traceability regulation. The handouts were used at the meeting for discussion purposes.

• Agenda for Wisconsin Meeting
• Agenda for Georgia and Washington Meeting
• Update and Current Thinking of the Proposed Rule and Related Issues
• Overview and Current Thinking
• Update and Preliminary Content of the Proposed Rule
• Official Eartags – Criteria and Options

If you have any questsions or comments regarding the meetings, please contact us at traceability@aphis.usda.gov.

• View summaries and transcripts from previous public meetings