Animal & Plant Industries Committee

Agenda – “A & PI Agenda final”
Committee Report – “Animal & Plant Industries Report final”
Action Item: “ACAP Action Item (2)”

• Makes recommendations on the NASDA-APHIS Collaborative Assessment Project (CAP)* regarding emergency communications and information-sharing between state and federal programs on animal and plant health policies.
• At the meeting APHIS provided a ‘next steps’ document which is included here: “next steps recommendation 2-6-08”
• While it was not used during the meeting, a Power Point summarizing the major portion of the report is available: “Summary of the Main Section of Collaboration Paper” (ppt)
• Background documents: “Transmittal Memo,” the report, “Collaboration Assessment” and” Collaboration Appendix” – all pdf format

Presentations during the Committee:

• Tyler Brown – Global Animal Management: “NASDA (2008) Brown” (ppt)
• Lee Myers – NVS – VS – APHIS USDA National Veterinary Stockpile:     “NVS Outreach Strategy for NASDA Midyear meeting“ (ppt)
• Bernadette Dunham – FDA – CVM – Feed & Related Issues: “FDA for NASDA Midyear meeting” (ppt)
• Gray Haun – NPB Update – “NPB for NASDA Midyear meeting 08” (ppt)

Presentations made by NASDA at the NEMA Homeland Security Consortium (Dec 2007):

• “NEMA New Orleans for Midyear”    (ppt)

* NASDA-APHIS Assessment of Collaboration for Incident Response Preparedness Report (The entire report comprises all of these pdf files). A draft Collaboration Assessment Project Report was finalized by the Assessment Working Group (AWG). This draft report is being submitted to NASDA members and to the APHIS Leadership Team for discussion and approval. These documents include a transmittal letter from the Co-chairs of the AWG, a report that summarizes the survey data and makes some recommendations to consider and a document of appendices.