PURPOSE: This rule complies with section 536.023, RSMo which requires each agency to adopt as a rule a description of its operation and the methods where the public may obtain information or make submissions or requests.

1. (1) The Division of Animal Health is a unit of the Department of Agriculture, state of Missouri. The animal health program’s primary responsibility is to control and eradicate livestock diseases to insure optimum health of Missouri’s livestock population. This responsibility is carried out through various subprograms such as disease control and eradication, animal health laboratories, livestock market licensing and surveillance registration of livestock dealers, rendering plant licensing and dead animal surveillance and registration of livestock brands.
2. (2) The state veterinarian’s office is in the Department of Agriculture on the 3rd floor of the Missouri Boulevard Staff Office Building located at 1616 Missouri Boulevard, Jefferson City, MO 65102.
3. (3) Three (3) laboratories are maintained by the state veterinarian’s office and are located at the following addresses: Cooperative State & Federal Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, 216 El Mercado Plaza, Jefferson City, MO 65109; Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, 701 North Miller Avenue, Post Office Box 2510, Springfield, MO 65802-2510; and Northwest Missouri Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, 308 West Grand, Cameron, MO 64429.

AUTHORITY: section 536.023, RSMo Supp. 1998.* Original rule filed April 9, 1976, effective July 15, 1976. Amended: Filed Dec. 13, 1989, effective April 27, 1990. Amended: Filed Jan. 4, 1999, effective July 30, 1999. *Original authority 1975, amended 1976, 1997.