STATEMENT FROM STATE

1. The fair board of any county, district, or the state fair reserves the right to have blood and urine laboratory analysis made for any animal at their fair. Any exhibitor administering a drug to an animal which would render the carcass unfit for human consumption or any exhibitor of any animal producing an analysis indications the presence of an unapproved drug that can result in a quantitative or qualitative change in the characteristics of the animal will be required to return all premium money and could be banned from further competition. Their name and the lab analysis will be submitted to the USDA and FDA for further investigation and possible prosecution.
    

2. DISCLOSURE: Any animal receiving medication for any life threatening disease or illness must be registered at the time they are entered in the fair.
    

3. Equine infectious anemia: The legislative passed Wooldridge’s SB361 and it has been signed by the governor as ACT 540. This requires EIA verifiers to be at any event which has more than 50 horses or any event which charges any kind of gate, entry, or membership fee; or any event giving away prizes, awards, or points of any kind. Anyone that puts on an event with horses that meets any of those standards is required to have EIA verifiers present. Pay, if any, for EIA verifiers will be by private treaty with the event organizer.
    

4. Swine Brucellosis and Pseudorabies testing for fairs with 4-h and FFA swine: As of July 1, 2001, the new swine regulations will go into effect that requires all swine undergoing a change of ownership and all those exhibited at fairs to have an official premise identification. Also herd testing is required for at least thirty (30) animals for swine Brucellosis and Pseudorabies each year or be from a qualified/validated herd to a feeder pig monitored herd. Owners are not required to apply premise identification tags to the swine until movement to the fair or prior to change of ownership. When a herd is tested, the owner will be given fifty (50) premise identification tags, applicator pliers, a registration form, and an order form to obtain additional tags. The first set is free; all recorders will be at the owner expense and must be ordered directly from the tag manufacturer.