VS 21-202 2020 NAHMS Swine Large Enterprise Consent Form

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE
VETERINARY SERVICES
NATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM
2150 CENTRE AVE, BLDG B
FORT COLLINS, CO 80526

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2020 NAHMS Swine Large
Enterprise Consent

For release of information for:

EPAID:

(Consenting Operator: Hereafter referred to as YOU)
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) is
conducting a study of U.S. swine operations. NAHMS studies are voluntary and nonregulatory. This study will take an indepth look at U.S. swine operations and provide new and valuable information regarding animal health and management
practices in the U.S. swine industry. To initiate the study, a sample was selected from the confidential list of operations
maintained by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Your operation was selected for participation and will
represent a number of unselected swine operations.
By signing this Consent Form, you are agreeing to allow USDA–NASS staff to provide the following information to the
State NAHMS Coordinator, who is employed by USDA–APHIS: your name, address, phone number, email address,
total inventory, and operation type (meat/breeding/other). Confidentiality of your data is crucially important to us.
No name or contact information will be associated with individual data, and no data will be reported in a way that could
reveal the identity of a participant. Data are presented only in aggregated summaries.
The NAHMS Coordinator will share this information with a Federal or State veterinary medical officer (VMO), who will contact
you to administer a phase II questionnaire. You will also have the opportunity to obtain free testing for your hogs, including
testing for: fecal (Salmonella, E. coli, Enterococcus) and oral (Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, Swine influenza,
Seneca Valley, and Porcine epidemic diarrhea viruses) pathogens. Only the Federal or State VMOs collecting the data know the
identity of study participants.
When you are contacted by a Federal or State VMO and asked to participate in the study, you are free to accept or decline
participation at that time. A copy of the questionnaire that will be administered when you’re visited by the Federal or State
VMO can be found at: www.aphis.usda.gov/nahms. If you have been selected but have not been contacted or if you have
questions regarding the study, please call: (866) 907-8190.
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Number of hogs on the operation as of today: _____ head

2.

Operation Address: _____________________________________________ 3. Operation phone #: _________________

4.

Operation Email Address: ____________________________________________________________________________

5.

Use of swine on operation (check all that apply):

6.

Notes regarding the operation, (e.g. animals located in different state, changes to address or contact information):

Market

Breeding

Signature of Consenting Operator:

Date:

Signature of NASDA/NASS Enumerator:

Date:

VS Form 21-202
June 2020

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