USDA Seeks Input on Animal Vaccine Paperwork
Published Date: 7/1/2026
Notice
Summary
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wants to update and keep collecting info related to the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act, which helps keep animal medicines safe. This affects companies making or shipping vaccines and similar products. They’re asking for public comments by August 31, 2026, and there’s no new cost announced—just a smooth continuation with some tweaks.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
3-Year Extension of Reporting Rules
APHIS is asking OMB to renew its information collection under the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act for an additional 3 years. If you develop, produce, import, or ship veterinary biological products (for example vaccines or antitoxins), you must continue to provide information for licenses, permits, packaging and labeling, shipment authorizations, product and test reports, field study summaries, stop-distribution notices, due diligence petitions, and recordkeeping. APHIS estimates 1,231 respondents, 788,260,796 total annual responses, an average burden of 0.001 hours per response, and 53,859 total annual burden hours.
Changes to Burden and Response Estimates
APHIS says it changed its information-collection estimates: it decreased the Estimated Annual Number of Responses per Respondent and the Estimate of Burden per response, but it increased the Estimated Annual Number of Respondents, the Estimated Annual Number of Responses, and the Annual Burden on Respondents. These amended estimates will be used when seeking OMB approval for another 3-year period.
Encouragement of Electronic Submissions
APHIS says it will seek comments on ways to minimize respondent burden and gives electronic submission as an example. That means you may be able to submit some required licenses, permits, reports, or records electronically if APHIS adopts those methods.
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