In the July 18, 2016, Federal Register, USDA's APHIS proposed to amend its regulations to remove bovine spongiform encephalopathy-related import restrictions on live sheep and goats and most of their products and add import restrictions related to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies for certain wild, zoological, or other non-bovine ruminant species. The import conditions are based on internationally accepted scientific literature and are intended to align U.S. regulations with guidelines set out in the World Organization for Animal Health's Terrestrial Animal Health Code. Comments are due September 16, 2016.

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