[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2, Parts 200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR352.1]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 352--EXOTIC ANIMALS; VOLUNTARY INSPECTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 352.1  Definitions.

    The definitions in Sec. 301.2, not otherwise defined in this part, 
are incorporated into this part. In addition to those definitions, the 
following definitions will be applicable to the regulations in this 
part.
    (a) Act means the applicable provisions of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946, as amended (60 Stat. 1087, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 
1621 et seq.).
    (b) Acceptable means suitable for the purpose intended and 
acceptable to the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
    (c) Antelope means any animal belonging to the antelope family.
    (d) Applicant means any interested party who requests any inspection 
service.
    (e) Bison means any American bison or catalo or cattalo.
    (f) Buffalo means any animal belonging to the buffalo family.
    (g) Catalo or Cattalo means any hybrid animal with American bison 
appearance resulting from direct crossbreeding of American bison and 
cattle.
    (h) Condition means any condition, including, but not limited to, 
the state of preservation, cleanliness, or soundness of any product or 
the processing, handling, or packaging which may affect such product.
    (i) Condition and wholesomeness means the condition of any product, 
its healthfulness and fitness for human food.
    (j) Deer means any member of the deer family.
    (k) Exotic animal means any reindeer, elk, deer, antelope, water 
buffalo or bison.
    (l) Elk means any American elk.
    (m) Exotic animal inspection service means the personnel who are 
engaged in the administration, application, and direction of exotic 
animal inspection programs and services pursuant to the regulations in 
this part.
    (n) Exotic animal producer means any interested party that engages 
in the raising and/or marketing of an exotic animal for commercial 
purposes.
    (o) Field ante-mortem inspection means the ante-mortem inspection of 
an exotic animal away from the official exotic animal establishment's 
premises.
    (p) Field designated area means any designated area on the 
applicant's premises, approved by the Regional Director, where field 
ante-mortem inspection is to be performed.
    (q) Identify means to apply official identification to products or 
containers.
    (r) Inspection means any inspection by an inspector to determine, in 
accordance with regulations in this part, (1) the condition and 
wholesomeness of an exotic animal, or (2) the condition and 
wholesomeness of edible product of an exotic animal at any state of the 
preparation or packaging in the official plant where inspected and 
certified, or (3) the condition and wholesomeness of any previously 
inspected and certified product of an exotic animal if such product has 
not lost its identity as an inspected and certified product.
    (s) Interested party means any person financially interested in a 
transaction involving any inspection.
    (t) Official exotic animal establishment means any slaughtering, 
cutting, boning, curing, smoking, salting, packing, rendering, or 
similar establishment at which inspection is maintained under the 
regulations in this part.
    (u) Official device means a stamping appliance, branding device, 
stencil printed label, or any other mechanically or manually operated 
tool that is approved by the Administrator for the purpose of applying 
any official mark or other identification to any product or packaging 
material.

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    (v) Official identification means any symbol, stamp, label or seal 
indicating that the product has been officially inspected and/or 
indicating the condition of the product approved and authorized by the 
Administrator to be affixed to any product, or affixed to or printed on 
the packaging material of any product.
    (w) Program means the Voluntary Exotic Animal Inspection Program of 
the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
    (x) Reindeer means any reindeer commonly referred to as caribou.
    (y) Transport vehicle means any vehicle used to transport an exotic 
animal.
    (z) Veterinarian means an authorized veterinarian of the Program 
employed by the Department or any cooperating State who is authorized by 
the Secretary to do any work or perform any duty in connection with the 
Program.
    (aa) Water buffalo means any Asiatic water buffalo, commonly 
referred to as carabao; and the water buffalo of India, commonly 
referred to as the Indian buffalo.

[54 FR 1330, Jan. 13, 1989]