Comment from Dominika Pawelczyk

In my opinion, I think if some countries receiving livestock from the US do not require tuberculosis and brucellosis testing on goats and swine, there is no need for our government to spend money on such testing. It would be in the best interest for such non-requiring countries to require those tests, because of possible risk of tracking those two diseases from meats, however, I understand that most countries provide proper vaccinations for their communities in order to prevent such infections. Therefore, if those countries do not care much for those tests to be done before US exporting animals, there is no need to perform those tests, as they are costing our country money. However, in order to protect our country from possible law suits in case an infection was traced to our meats, there should be some kind of contract stating that they receiving country did not require such tests and therefore they are importing those animals on their own health risk. The price of the non-tested animals should be discounted for those countries.