redback vole | red-backed voles | Tundra redback vole, ((also called)) northern red-backed vole | Boreal redback vole, ((also called)) Grapper's red-backed vole | California redback vole, ((aussi appelé)) Western red-backed vole

red-backed salamander

smallmouth salamander

amphibian [ frog | salamander | toad ]

According to the EFSA Assistance, quarantining salamanders, the testing of salamanders to demonstrate that they are free of infection from Bsal, restricting movements of salamanders, hygienic procedures and biosecurity measures or treating salamanders against Bsal are important risk mitigation measures in preventing the spread of that disease.

The EFSA, in its scientific and technical assistance concerning the survival, establishment and spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) in the EU (the EFSA Assistance), assessed the potential of Bsal to affect the health of wild and kept salamanders in the Union, the effectiveness and feasibility of a movement ban on traded salamanders, the validity, reliability and robustness of available diagnostic methods for Bsal detection and possible alternative methods and feasible risk mitigation measures to ensure safe international and intra-Union trade in salamanders.

before issuing the animal health certificate referred to in point (b), the epidemiological unit comprising the salamanders in the consignment must have been isolated from other salamanders at the latest at the time of the examination for the purposes of issuing of animal health certificate and they must not have been in contact with other salamanders since that time.

II. 3. The consignment of salamanders has been isolated from other salamanders at the latest at the time of the examination referred to in point II. 2 and the consignment has not been in contact with other salamanders since that time.