[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR166.1]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 166--SWINE HEALTH PROTECTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 166.1  Definitions in alphabetical order.

    For the purposes of this part, the following terms shall have the 
meanings assigned them in this section. Unless otherwise required by the 
context, the singular form shall also import the plural and the 
masculine form shall also import the feminine, and vice versa. Words 
undefined in the following paragraphs shall have the meaning attributed 
to them in general usage as reflected by definitions in a standard 
dictionary.
    Act. The Swine Health Protection Act (Pub. L. 96-468) as amended by 
the Farm Credit Act Amendments of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-592).
    Administrator. The Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service, or any person authorized to act for the Administrator.
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of 
Agriculture.
    Animals. All domesticated and wild mammalian, poultry, and fish 
species, and wild and domesticated animals, including pets such as dogs 
and cats.
    Area Veterinarian in Charge. The veterinarian of APHIS who is 
assigned by the Administrator to supervise and perform the official work 
of APHIS in a State or States or any other official to whom authority 
has heretofore been delegated or to whom authority may hereafter be 
delegated to act in his stead.
    Facility. The site and all objects at this site including equipment 
and structures where garbage is accumulated, stored, handled, and cooked 
as a food for swine and which are fenced in or otherwise constructed so 
that swine are unable to have access to untreated garbage.
    Garbage. All waste material derived in whole or in part from the 
meat of any animal (including fish and poultry) or other animal 
material, and other refuse of any character whatsoever that has been 
associated with any such material, resulting from the handling, 
preparation, cooking or consumption of food, except that such term shall 
not include waste from ordinary household operations which is fed 
directly to swine on the same premises where such household is located.
    Inspector. Any individual employed by the United States Department 
of Agriculture or by a State for the purposes of enforcing the Act and 
this part.
    License. A permit issued to a person for the purpose of allowing 
such person to operate a facility to treat garbage that is to be fed to 
swine.
    Licensee. Any person licensed pursuant to the Act and regulations.
    Person. Any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, 
partnership, society or joint stock company or other legal entity.
    Premises. The location of a garbage treatment facility, as defined 
in this part, and any areas owned or controlled by the operator of the 
facility where swine are kept or fed by the operator.

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    Rendered product. Waste material derived in whole or in part from 
the meat of any animal (including fish and poultry) or other animal 
material, and other refuse of any character whatsoever that has been 
associated with any such material, resulting from the handling, 
preparation, cooking or consumption of food that has been ground and 
heated to a minimum temperature of 230  deg.F. to make products such as, 
but not limited to, animal, poultry, or fish protein meal, grease or 
tallow.
    State. The fifty States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto 
Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, American Samoa, the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the territories and 
possessions of the United States.
    State animal health official. The individual employed by a State who 
is responsible for livestock and poultry disease control and eradication 
programs or any other official to whom authority is delegated to act for 
the State animal health official.
    Treated garbage. Edible waste for animal consumption derived from 
garbage (as defined in this section) that has been heated throughout at 
boiling or equivalent temperature (212  deg.F. or 100  deg.C. at sea 
level) for 30 (thirty) minutes under the supervision of a licensee.
    Treatment. The heating of garbage to specifications as set forth in 
this part.
    Untreated garbage. Garbage that has not been treated in accordance 
with the Act and these regulations.

[47 FR 49945, Nov. 3, 1982, as amended at 48 FR 22290, May 18, 1983; 52 
FR 4890, Feb. 18, 1987; 56 FR 26899, June 12, 1991; 66 FR 21064, Apr. 
27, 2001]