The aim of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code (hereafter referred to as the Terrestrial Code) is to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in terrestrial animals and their products. This is achieved through the detailing of health measures to be used by the veterinary authorities of importing and exporting countries to avoid the transfer of agents pathogenic for animals or humans, while avoiding unjustified sanitary barriers.
The health measures in the Terrestrial Code (in the form of standards and recommendations) have been formally adopted by the OIE International Committee, the general assembly of all Delegates of OIE Members. This 18th edition incorporates the modifications to the Terrestrial Code agreed during the 77th General Session in May 2009.
These include revised chapters on the following subjects: These include revised chapters on the following subjects: glossary, animal health surveillance, import risk analysis, animal health measures applicable before and at departure, border posts and quarantine stations in the importing country, design and implementation of identification systems to achieve animal traceability, zoning and compartmentalisation, application of compartmentalisation, collection and processing of bovine, small ruminant and porcine semen, general hygiene in semen collection and processing centres, collection and processing of in vivo derived embryos from livestock and horses, collection and processing of in vitro produced embryos/oocytes from livestock and horses, collection and processing of micromanipulated embryos/oocytes from livestock and horses, somatic cell nuclear transfer in production livestock and horses, general obligations related to certification, certification procedures, the role of Veterinary Services in food safety, foot and mouth disease, rabies, bluetongue, rinderpest, acarapisosis of honey bees, American foulbrood of honey bees, European foulbrood of honey bees, small hive beetle infestation (Aethina tumida), Tropilaelaps infestation of honey bees, varroosis of honey bees, avian influenza, Newcastle disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, bovine tuberculosis, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, African horse sickness, equine influenza, equine rhinopneumonitis, equine viral arteritis, scrapie, classical swine fever, Rift Valley fever, bovine cysticercosis and Teschovirus encephalomyelitis.
This edition includes two new chapters on bovine tuberculosis of farmed cervidae and West Nile fever as well as six new chapters covering surveillance of arthropod vectors of animal diseases; prevention, detection and control of Salmonella in poultry; introduction to the recommendations for controlling antimicrobial resistance; stray dog population control; control of hazards of animal health and public health importance in animal feed; and procedures for self declaration and for official recognition by the OIE of disease-free status.
The chapter on leptospirosis has been deleted from this edition.
The development of these standards and recommendations is the result of the continuous work since 1960 of one of the OIE's Specialist Commissions, the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission. This Commission draws upon the expertise of internationally renowned specialists to prepare draft texts for new articles of the Terrestrial Code or revise existing articles in the light of advances in veterinary science.
The value of the Terrestrial Code is twofold: that the measures published in it are the result of consensus among the veterinary authorities of OIE Members, and that it constitutes a reference within the World Trade Organization Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures as an international standard for animal health and zoonoses.
The OIE Terrestrial Code is a reference document for use by Veterinary Authorities, import/export services, epidemiologists and all those involved in international trade.
A users' guide is available.
The Terrestrial Code is published annually in paper form in the three official OIE languages (English, French and Spanish), and in Russian. The contents of the 2009 version of the Terrestrial Code can be consulted in Web format.
Terrestrial Code
18th Edition, 2009
29.7 x 21 cm
ISBN du volume 1 : 978-92-9044-741-2
ISBN du volume 2 : 978-92-9044-742-9Price: 55 euros
Ref.: A 146
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