8 CCR 1201-20, pt. 2 - Definitions

2.1. "Accredited Veterinarian" means an individual who is currently licensed and in good standing with a veterinary licensing board or agency in any state of the United States or the District of Columbia to practice veterinary medicine and is accredited by the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services.

2.2. "Agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) test" means the official serological test for AI in which precipitates are formed by a combination of nonspecific AI antigens and antibodies that diffuse through a gel. A positive reaction indicates exposure to AI virus, but does not indicate a specific subtype. Samples positive by AGID must be further tested and subtyped using the hemagglutination inhibition test. A final decision on the status of an AGID-positive flock should be based on further sampling and testing for the presence of virus through RRT-PCR or virus isolation.

2.3. "AI" means avian influenza.

2.4. "Animal health official" means an employee of or person under the direct supervision of the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA), Colorado State University (CSU) or USDA who has authority to carry out Live Bird Market System Program activities.

2.5. "Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)" means the agency in the United States Department of Agriculture known as the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

2.6. "Approved laboratory" means a State, Federal, university, or private laboratory that has been approved by USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services (NPIP or NAHLN), to perform one or more official AI tests for the program.

2.7. "Area Veterinarian in Charge (AVIC)" means the veterinary official of APHIS, VS, assigned by the Administrator to supervise and perform the official animal health programs of APHIS in the State or States concerned.

2.8. "Auction market" means a location where producers, dealers, wholesalers, and retailers meet to purchase, trade, or sell live birds.

2.9. "NPIP Certified Flock" means a flock or premises that complies with the required components of the National Poultry Improvement Program, including participating in avian influenza H5/H7 surveillance program developed by an Official State Agency, and that has a valid NPIP participation number.

2.10. "CDA" means the Colorado Department of Agriculture.

2.11. "Certified poultry technician (CPT)" means an individual who has been specially trained in poultry health monitoring and specimen collection by the State, and who is included on an official list of technicians certified by the State to perform inspections and specimen collections.

2.12. "Cleaning and disinfection (C&D)" means the methods used to destroy or eliminate AI on the premises. This requires thorough removal of organic material and debris, followed by treatment with the proper concentration of an agent effective in inactivation of AI virus.

2.13. "Commingled flock" means poultry from multiple sources that has been assembled into one or more groups.

2.14. "Commission" means the Colorado Agricultural Commission.

2.15. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture.

2.16. "Distribution system" means businesses (such as wholesalers, dealers, haulers, and auction markets) engaged in the transportation and/or sale of poultry to LBMs. These are the links between production flocks and LBMs.

2.17. "Distributor" means any of the businesses or an individual working within the distribution system serving the LBMs.

2.18. "Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)" means a type-specific serological screening test to determine exposure to AI virus.

2.19. "Hauler/trucker" means a business or individual that transports poultry from producer premises to another supplier premises, to another distributor, or to an LBM.

2.20. "High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) virus" means any influenza virus that kills at least 75 percent of 4- to 6-week-old susceptible chickens within 10 days following intravenous inoculation of 0.2 ml of a 1:10 dilution of infectious allantoic fluid; or any H5 or H7 influenza virus that has an amino acid sequence at the hemagglutination cleavage site compatible with HPAI; or any influenza virus that is not an H5 or H7 subtype and that kills one to five chickens and grows in cell culture in the absence of trypsin.

2.21 "Hold order" means a temporary order issued by the state veterinarian when an infectious or contagious disease is suspected in livestock to isolate any specific livestock, premises, county, district, or section of the state; restrict the movement of livestock; and specify sanitary measures, pending completion of testing.

2.22. "Infected premises" means a premises that houses a flock(s) that has been confirmed to be positive for AI virus, subtype H5 or H7, by an approved laboratory using an official test.

2.23. "Live bird market (LBM)" means any facility that gathers live poultry to be slaughtered and sold onsite.

2.24. "Live Bird Market System Program (LBMSP)" means the CDA program that controls and reduces outbreaks of avian influenza in all components of the live bird market system.

2.25. "Live bird marketing system (LBM system)" means the LBM system that includes LBMs and their production and distribution systems.

2.26. "Live haul" means a process and the personnel and equipment used in that process, in which live poultry are transported from one location to another.

2.27. "Lot" means a grouping of birds within a flock from a premises that arrive together at a market at one specific time point.

2.28. "Low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) virus" means all influenza A viruses of H5 and H7 subtypes that are not high pathogenicity avian influenza viruses.

2.29. "National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL)" means the USDA, APHIS, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, which is the national diagnostic reference laboratory for AI.

2.30. "Positive flock" means a flock that has been confirmed to be positive for AI virus, subtype H5 or H7, by an official test performed at an approved laboratory. Specimens that are found to be positive by the AGID test must be tested by the hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test and neuraminidase-inhibition (NI) test at the NVSL. The final determination of the status of an AI seropositive flock will be based on epidemiological data and additional serological and virological (rRT-PCR and virus isolation) testing.

2.31. "Poultry" means any species of domestic fowl (including chickens, turkeys, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, waterfowl, and game birds) raised for food production or other purposes.

2.32. "Poultry dealers" means individuals in businesses or the businesses themselves concerned with trading birds in the LBM system, acquiring birds from multiple flocks and geographic areas for resale, or movement of live poultry between the production system and LBMs.

2.33. "Poultry waste" includes dead birds, feathers, offal, and poultry litter.

2.34. "Premises identification number" means a nationally unique number assigned by a state, tribal, or Federal animal health authority to a premises that is, in the judgment of the state, tribal, or Federal animal health authority, a geographically distinct location from other premises. The premises identification number is associated with an address, geospatial coordinates, or location descriptors that provide a verifiably unique location. The premises identification number may be used in conjunction with a producer's own livestock production numbering system to provide a unique identification number for an animal. It may also be used as a component of a group or lot identification number.

2.35. "Production or supplier flock" means the production facility or farm that is the origin of poultry offered for sale in an LBM.

2.36 "Quarantine" means an order issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture when testing has confirmed the presence of an infectious or contagious disease in livestock, which order isolates specific livestock , premises, counties, districts, or sections of the state; restricts the movement of livestock; and specifies sanitary measures.

2.37. "Real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RRT-PCR)" means an official test to detect the RNA of AI virus.

2.38. "Registration" means the process by which an LBM provides to CDA the information required by these rules to register with the state as an LBM in the state.

2.39. "USDA" means the United States Department of Agriculture

2.40. "Veterinary Services (VS)" means the division of APHIS charged with animal health activities within the United States.

2.41. "Wholesaler" means a business with a facility that buys birds from producers, distributors, or auction markets, and then trades or resells them.

Notes

8 CCR 1201-20, pt. 2

39 CR 23, December 10, 2016, effective 12/30/2016 44 CR 13, July 10, 2021, effective 7/30/2021