Cecil:
If states have in their regulations that "X" species should be tested in accordance to the Federal Blue Book, then wouldn't that mean that VHS testing was no longer needed? i.e. IIRC Michigan is one that says that. health certified by U.S.D.A./AFS blue book standards
Now Scott you're trying to make sense out of the government. It doesn't always work that way.
And the people that make these decisions have no clue on what it's like to run a small business and make it work to keep food on the table. Remember APHIS shut down Great Lakes interstate fish sales for a year and didn't care who they hurt. Some farms went out of business. The federal employees checks kept coming in while they sat on their hands trying to figure out what to do.