A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

REGULATORY: Includes APHIS, FWS

ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE

Notice announcing APHIS concurs with the World Organization for Animal Health’s bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk designation for Ireland, which recognizes Ireland as being of negligible risk for BSE. Info here.

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Proposed rule to designate critical habitat for the Louisiana pinesnake (Pituophis ruthveni) under the Endangered Species Act. Info here.

Proposed rule to list the Lassics lupine (Lupinus constancei), a plant species native to northern California, as an endangered species and designate critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act. Info here.