What WUAC Provides on Sebaceous Adenitis (SA) Health Data in Akitas

Updated

WUAC's site gives you a starting point, not a full database: it hosts a Health Data Projects section with an SA tested Akita area and a project page titled SA – Current Overview, attributed to PD Dr. Ina Pfeiffer and Sara Baila (cand. Dipl.-Biol.), dated February 2015. If you need current test results, pedigrees, or breeding advice, this material alone will not answer those questions — it points you to a research overview and to the federation's health-project framework.

What is actually on the site

The navigation lists these health-related entries:

  • Health Data Projects — the umbrella section for WUAC health work
  • SA tested Akita — a dedicated area for SA-tested dogs
  • SA – Current Overview — the project write-up, credited to PD Dr. Ina Pfeiffer and Sara Baila, cand. Dipl.-Biol., February 2015

The excerpt confirms the researchers and the 2015 date but does not reproduce the overview's contents, so treat the page as a pointer to the project rather than a source of statistics.

How to use it as a breeder or owner

  1. Open the Health Data Projects section from the main navigation.
  2. Go to SA tested Akita to see what testing information WUAC publishes.
  3. Read SA – Current Overview for the project's framing and the researchers involved.
  4. Note the February 2015 date before relying on any figure — check whether a newer version exists on the site or through the member club in your country.

Expected result: you will know what WUAC's SA project covers and who led it, and you can decide whether to contact your national Akita club for more recent data.

Limits to keep in mind

  • The site does not state that SA testing is mandatory, nor does it publish a public results database in the material available.
  • The overview is dated 2015; breeding decisions should rest on current veterinary guidance and your club's health schemes, not on a decade-old summary.
  • WUAC describes itself as the federation for Akita clubs in FCI countries, so your national club is the practical route to testing records and litter-level information.

For the breed itself, the site separately hosts The Standard and Judging the Akita pages, which are the place to go for conformation questions rather than health data.