Total entries: 116 (Listed alphabetically by title)
Description: This record series consists of notices to apply for a Companion Animal or Equine (CAE) license. These notices are used for persons and entities performing licensable activities without a CAE license and who have no prior knowledge of the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s (GDA) licensing requirements. Records include applications and correspondence.
Retention: 3 years after released by GDA.
Description: Documents relating to licensing a rendering plant, abattoir, meat processing plant and/or poultry processing plant
Retention: 1 year
Description: The file consists of blueprints of abattoirs and meat processing plants licensed and inspected by the Department
Retention: 1 year
Description: Documents relating to registering 10 pound and less packages of commercial fertilizer as a regulatory device for the fertilizer industry
Retention: 1 year
Description: Documents relating to the antemortem and postmortem inspection of all animals slaughtered under regulations governing abattoirs and meat processing plants
Retention: 2 years
Description: Documents relating to registration of service stations to sell petroleum products
Retention: Permanent
Description: This record series consists of records relating to laboratory reports of bacteria in raw milk samples. Records include a chain-of-custody form and collection report from the inspector, as well as a laboratory chain-of-custody record documentation.
Retention: 3 years
Description: This record series consists of inspections of beekeepers who ship bees to other states when the receiving state requires inspection to demonstrate freedom from specific pests.
Retention: 1 year
Description: Documents relating to the issue of permits to sell and/or distribute biological products and poultry remedies in Georgia. Permits are valid until revoked, cancelled or suspended.
Retention: 1 year
Description: Documents relating to the destruction of diseased livestock for which owner is indemnified by State and Federal funds
Retention: 5 years
Description: Results of testing by veterinarians for brucellosis in cattle at sales barns. Tests are made on day of sale.
Retention: 5 years
Description: This record series consists of call center recordings maintained for training and documentation purposes. Records include call recordings between representatives and constituents.
Retention: 30 days
Description: Documents relating to cattle herd laboratory tests
Retention: 15 years
Description: Documents relating to cattle herd quarantines and releases
Retention: 2 years
Description: Certifying and/or accreditation of cattle herds.
Retention: See full retention form for instructions
Description: Documents relating to certifying individuals to service L.P. gas metering devices
Retention: 1 year
Description: Documents relating to certifying companies and individuals as public weighers
Retention: 1 year
Description: Documents relating to certifying individuals to repair scales in Georgia
Retention: 2 years
Description: Documents relating to the registering of commercial feed as a regulatory device for the feed industry
Retention: 1 year
Description: This record series consists of documents relating to the certification of applicators under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the licensing of applicators under the Georgia Pesticide Use and Application Act.
Retention: 5 years after expiration.
Description: Documents relating to the official balloting to authorize a commodity marketing order to collect assessments from produces of an agricultural product for use in promotion, education and research
Retention: 3 years
Description: Documents relating to out-of-state firms doing business in Georgia appointing or designating an attorney-in-fact for the serving of appropriate summons or process as prescribed in Department of Agriculture regulations as it relates to the License and Permit Act
Retention: 1 year
Description: Documents relating to the consumer protection inspector's daily activities
Retention: 1 year
Description: Documents relating to licensing and permitting the sale of dairy products in Georgia
Retention: 2 years
Description: Documents relating to the inspection of dairy plants as submitted daily by dairy inspectors
Retention: 1 year
