Pet Travel - Moving Pets to Australia. APHIS - Animal Welfare - Animal Care. USDA Animal Care is responsible for upholding and enforcing the Animal Welfare Act and the Horse Protection Act.
The Animal Welfare Act and its associated regulations require that federally established standards of care and treatment be provided for certain warm-blooded animals bred for commercial sale, used in research, transported commercially or exhibited to the public. The Horse Protection Act and its associated regulations seek to put an end to soring (a procedure in which horses are subjected to chemical and/or mechanical irritants in order to enhance their gait) by preventing sored horses from participating in exhibitions/shows/sales/auctions.
The Center for Animal Welfare collaborates with other animal welfare entities to play a central role in USDA’s efforts to: build partnerships domestically and internationally; improve regulatory practices; and reach beyond USDA’s traditional enforcement role to develop outreach, training and educational resources. APHIS - Import and Export. APHIS plays a vital role in ensuring the free flow of agricultural trade by keeping U.S. agricultural industries free from pests and diseases and certifying that the millions of U.S. agricultural and food products shipped to markets abroad meet the importing countries' entry requirements.
APHIS makes sure that all imported agricultural products shipped to the United States from abroad meet the Agency's entry requirements to exclude pests and diseases of agriculture. APHIS also keeps export markets open for American agricultural products by working to eliminate unjustified sanitary or phytosanitary (SPS) barriers - that is, concerns involving plant and animal health - raised by U.S. trading partners. APHIS' team of technical experts, based in the United States and abroad, includes scientists, veterinarians, pathologists, and entomologists that advocate on behalf of U.S. agriculture.
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