After Creekstone, private distributors are prevented from employing rapid BSE test kits without authorization from the USDA. The court accepted the agency's broad interpretation of VSTA in its promulgation of several regulations. In the end, the rapid BSE test kits have been lumped into the category of 'treatment of domestic animals" because they have been characterized as "biological products." Consequently, the USDA remains the sole authority on who may test for BSE and in what manner, leaving Creekstone Farms without the option to privately test its own meat.
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