The USDA announced its initial vaccine purchase for the FMD vaccine bank on Wednesday. 

The National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s

Beef Association welcomed the announcement. 

NPPC called announcement momentous and says it provides a solution for FMD

preparedness should an outbreak occur.  NCBA

says the announcement is a promising first step, but more action is needed to

strengthen the newly created vaccine bank. 

Boehringer Ingelheim has been awarded the contract to create

and maintain a strategic reserve of frozen vaccine antigen concentrate that the

company could quickly formulate into a vaccine for FMD should an outbreak

occur.

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