GLICKMAN NAMES FOREIGN ANIMAL DISEASE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

                                            Release No. 0161.97
                                                               
                                   Dawn Kent     (301) 734-7255
                                           dkent@aphis.usda.gov
                                   Jerry Redding (202) 720-6959
                                              jredding@usda.gov

GLICKMAN NAMES FOREIGN ANIMAL DISEASE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

     WASHINGTON, May 14, 1997--Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today
announced the selection of new members to USDA's Advisory Committee on
Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases.

     This committee advises the Secretary on policies and program issues
necessary to keep foreign animal and poultry diseases from being introduced
into the United States.  Members also offer recommendations on contingency
planning and emergency management in the event that a disease outbreak does
occur.

     Members serve on the advisory committee for two years.  The following
individuals have been appointed to serve on the committee:

     -- Dr. J. Lee Alley, Alabama Department of Agriculture
     -- Dr. Terry L. Beals, Texas Animal Health Commission
     -- Dr. Charles W. Beard, Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association
     -- Dr. G. Marvin Beeman, practicing veterinarian
     -- Dr. Richard E. Breitmeyer, California Department of Food and
          Agriculture
     -- Honorable Gus R. Douglass, West Virginia Department of Agriculture
     -- Ms. Constance K. Greig, rancher
     -- Dr. G. Thomas Holder, Allen's Hatchery, Inc.
     -- Dr. Robert E. Holland, Michigan State University
     -- Dr. Karen R. Jordan, veterinarian
     -- Dr. Kelvin Koong, Oregon State University
     -- Dr. Beth A. Lautner, veterinarian
     -- Dr. Timothy P. O'Neill, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
     -- Dr. Ray B. Powell, New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands
     -- Dr. John R. Ragan, Tennessee Department of Agriculture
     -- Mr. Glenn N. Slack, Livestock Conservation Institute
     -- Dr. Thomas R. Thedford, Oklahoma State University
     -- Dr. Lyle P. Vogel, American Veterinary Medical Association
     -- Dr. Larry L. Williams, Nebraska Department of Agriculture
     -- Dr. Saul Wilson, Tuskegee University


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