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Plant and Animal Health Monitoring Programs

These programs, run by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, assist in protecting plant and animal resources from pests and diseases through ongoing monitoring and surveillance. They provide rapid detection, analysis and reporting of pests and diseases to minimize potential losses.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program purpose and design are clear, and addresses a clearly defined problem. The program is also well managed, and works to coordinate activities with State, local and tribal programs.
  • The program has been working to improve performance. One measure is the percentage of known significant pest introductions that are detected before they spread from the original area of colonization. Even though the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service did not reach its target due to funding constraints, it has made significant improvement. It is now meeting most of its long term goals.
  • The program has shown growth in recent years, in response to issues such as food and agriculture defense and the discovery of a cow with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Additional funding has been provded largely through emergency authority.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Adding a new long-term performance measure to show the impact of the program on economic losses from pests and diseases.
  • Continuing to implement the comprehensive swine disease surveillance system by advancing the design and implementation for classical swine fever, swine brucellosis, and pseudorabies.
  • Developing a strategic plan to manage the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Process.

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