Councils
NIAA councils are developed on current and emerging topics to provide platforms to exchange scientific information, find common ground and seek resolutions across species segments.
Animal Health Emergency Management Council
To provide a forum for representatives from animal agriculture, the veterinary profession, governmental agencies and academia to address animal health emergency management (AHEM) issues that may adversely affect animal agriculture or public health.
Animal Identification & Information Systems Council
To play an important role in bringing unresolved issues such as advocating cost effective technologies and systems for modernizing the identification of livestock that has significant implications for residue avoidance, disease control and providing management information to producers.
Antibiotics Council
The NIAA Antibiotics Council seeks to enhance an animal agriculture industry that is aligned with judicious antibiotic use policies and practices.
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Global Animal Health & Emerging Disease Council
Bring awareness of emerging foreign and domestic animal diseases to the attention of the NIAA membership, and explore and seek solutions to the global consequences of these diseases for those directly and indirectly involved in protecting U.S. food animal health.
Sustainability Council
The Sustainability Council empowers its participants to explore, discuss, learn, and develop knowledge that ensures the viability and acceptance of animal agriculture in today’s food system. The Council will address environmental stewardship, animal welfare, food security, and more.
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