Sentences with phrase «animal welfare inspection»

If the local county does not provide kennel inspections, some breeders will never have any type of animal welfare inspection.

The conversation addressed many top - of - mind issues for the pet industry including the USDA's decision to remove animal welfare inspection reports from its website and other matters related to the breeding and distribution of animals in the pet trade.

In February, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) removed animal welfare inspection and enforcement reports from its website, and while the agency restored some of what it removed last month, there is still virtually nothing available on breeding operations.

* Update, 9 April, 5:20 p.m.: Following Congress's request for greater transparency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has apparently restored detail in its most recent animal welfare inspection reports.

R. Andre Bell, a public affairs specialist at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in Riverdale, Maryland, the part of USDA that is responsible for conducting animal welfare inspections, wrote in an email: «APHIS is reviewing the language and has no comments at this time.»

Invaluable tool to research animal welfare inspection reports removed from the United States Department of Agriculture website.

«We urge the USDA to immediately restore full access to this critical animal welfare inspection and enforcement information and stand by its responsibility to act in the best interest of the animals it's obligated to safeguard.»

While the USDA insists that animal welfare inspection records are still obtainable through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, this is disingenuous — the ASPCA has obtained reports using this method only to find that they, too, are heavily redacted, allowing animal abusers to operate without accountability.

For example, Palm Beach requires that pet stores only sell dogs from suppliers with clean animal welfare inspections.

The plaintiffs allege that USDA violated the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) earlier this month when it removed thousands of animal welfare inspection reports and other records from a publicly accessible website.

There was an outcry from both animal welfare groups and animal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilities.