AAVMC Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges

AEI American Enterprise Institute

AI avian influenza

AMS Agricultural Marketing Service

ANCJDR Australian National CJD Registry

APHIS Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

APHL Association of Public Health Laboratories

ARS Agriculture Research Service

ASM American Society for Microbiology

AVMA American Veterinary Medical Association

BIDS Border Infectious Disease Surveillance

BRC Biologic Regulatory Commission

BSE bovine spongiform encephalopathy

BSL biosafety level

BW biological weapons

CAMR Center for Applied Microbiological Research

CBW chemical and biological weapons

CCMS Consumer Complaint Monitoring System

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDI Conformation Dependent Immunoassay

CFSAN Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

CISSM Center for International Security Studies at Maryland

CRS Congressional Research Service

CSF classic swine fever

CSPI Center for Science in the Public Interest

CSREES Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

CSTE Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists

CVM Center for Veterinary Medicine

CW chemical weapons

CWD chronic wasting disease

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DPVS due process vetting system

EID emerging infectious disease

END exotic Newcastle disease

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPFC Emerging Patterns in Food Complaints

ERS Economic Research Service

EUROCJD European and Allied Countries CJD Group

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

fCJD familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

FDA Food and Drug Administration

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

FMD foot-and-mouth disease

FMI Food Marketing Institute

FOUO For Official Use Only

FSIS Food Safety and Inspection Service

FSSA FDA Security Surveillance Assignment

GAO Government Accountability Office

GFAP glial fibrillary acidic protein

GIPSA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point

HAV hepatitis A virus

HGH human growth hormone

HHS Department of Health and Human Services

HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive

IDFA International Dairy Foods Association

IHC immunohistochemistry

IHR international health regulations

IOM Institute of Medicine

LRC Least Restrictive Classification

LRN Laboratory Response Network

MBM meat-and-bone meal

MRM mechanically recovered meat

NAHLN National Animal Health Laboratory Network

NASS National Agricultural Statistics Service

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NCFPD National Center for Food Protection and Defense

NCTR National Center for Toxicological Research

NGO nongovernmental organization

NIH National Institutes of Health

NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC National Research Council

NRDC Nature Resources Defense Council

OECA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

OIE Office International des Epizooties

OPPTS Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances

ORA Office of Regulatory Affairs

ORACBA Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis

ORM operational risk management

OTA Organic Trade Association

PFGE pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

PH public health

PHL public health laboratories

PNG Papua New Guinea

RFID radio frequency identification

RT-PCR reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome

SBO specified bovine offal

sCJD sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

SPPA Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism

SRM specified risk materials

TSE transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

UNMOVIC United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission

UNSCOM United Nations Special Commission

USAMRIID United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases

USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture

vCJD variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

WHO World Health Organization

WNV West Nile virus