[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: 9CFR94.0]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
    PART 94--RINDERPEST, FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, FOWL PEST (FOWL PLAGUE), EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE, AFRICAN SWINE FEVER, HOG CHOLERA, AND BOVINE SPONGIFORM 
ENCEPHALOPATHY: PROHIBITED AND RESTRICTED IMPORTATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 94.0  Definitions.

    As used in this part, the following terms shall have the meanings 
set forth in this section.
    Administrator. The Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service, or any person authorized to act for the Administrator.
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service, of the United States Department of 
Agriculture (APHIS.)
    APHIS representative. An individual employed by Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, who 
is authorized to perform the function involved.
    Authorized inspector. Any employee of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, or any 
other individual who is authorized by the Administrator to enforce this 
part.
    Birds. All members of the class Aves (other than poultry or game 
birds).
    Cervid. All species of deer, elk, and moose.
    Cold spot. The area in a flexible plastic cooking tube or other type 
of container loaded with meat product, or the areas at various points 
along the belt in an oven chamber, slowest to reach the required 
temperature during the cooking process. The cold spot(s) for each 
container is experimentally determined before the cooking process 
begins, and once identified, remains constant.
    Contact. Known or potential commingling of products during 
processing or storage, or while being transported from any point to any 
other point. Contact includes the simultaneous processing in the same 
room, locker, or container, but not necessarily the same storage 
facility or conveyance, as long

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as adequate security measures are taken to prevent commingling, as 
determined by an authorized APHIS representative.
    Container. For the purposes of Sec. 94.1(c) and Sec. 94.16(c), this 
term means a receptacle, sometimes refrigerated, which is designed to be 
filled with cargo, sealed, and then moved, without unsealing or 
unloading, aboard a variety of different transporting carriers.
    Department. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA, 
Department).
    Exotic Newcastle disease (END). Any velogenic Newcastle disease. 
Exotic Newcastle disease is an acute, rapidly spreading, and usually 
fatal viral disease of birds and poultry.
    Flock of origin. The flock in which the eggs were produced.
    FSIS inspector. An individual authorized by the Administrator, Food 
Safety and Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 
to perform the function involved.
    Game birds. Migratory birds, including certain ducks, geese, 
pigeons, and doves (``migratory'' refers to seasonal flight to and from 
the United States); free-flying quail, wild grouse, wild pheasants (as 
opposed to those that are commercial, domestic, or pen-raised).
    House. A structure, enclosed by walls and a roof, in which poultry 
are raised.
    Immediate export. The period of time determined by APHIS, based on 
shipping routes and timetables, to be the shortest practicable interval 
of time between the arrival in the United States of an incoming carrier 
and the departure from the United States of an outgoing carrier, to 
transport a consignment of products.
    Import (imported, importation) into the United States. To bring into 
the territorial limits of the United States.
    Indicator piece. A cube or slice of meat to be used for the pink 
juice test, required to meet minimum size specifications.
    Operator. The operator responsible for the day-to-day operations of 
a facility.
    Pink juice test. Determination of whether meat has been thoroughly 
cooked by observation of whether the flesh and juices have lost all red 
and pink color.
    Port of arrival. Any place in the United States at which a product 
or article arrives, unless the product or article remains on the means 
of conveyance on which it arrived within the territorial limits of the 
United States.
    Poultry. Chickens, turkeys, swans, partridges, guinea fowl, pea 
fowl; nonmigratory ducks, geese, pigeons, and doves; commercial, 
domestic, or pen-raised grouse, pheasants, and quail.
    Premises of origin. The premises where the flock of origin is kept.
    Region. Any defined geographic land area identifiable by geological, 
political, or surveyed boundaries. A region may consist of any of the 
following:
    (1) A national entity (country);
    (2) Part of a national entity (zone, county, department, 
municipality, parish, Province, State, etc.)
    (3) Parts of several national entities combined into an area; or
    (4) A group of national entities (countries) combined into a single 
area.
    Region of origin. For meat and meat products, the region in which 
the animal from which the meat or meat products were derived was born, 
raised and slaughtered; and for eggs, the region in which the eggs were 
laid.
    Ruminants. All animals that chew the cud, such as cattle, buffaloes, 
sheep, goats, deer, antelopes, camels, llamas and giraffes.
    Salmonella enteritidis. Salmonella enteritidis serotype enteritidis, 
an organism that causes salmonellosis.
    Salmonella enteritidis, phage-type 4. A virulent type of Salmonella 
enteritidis serotype enteritidis.
    Salmonellosis. An infectious disease caused by species of Salmonella 
bacteria.
    Sentinel bird. A chicken that has been raised in an environment free 
of pathogens that cause communicable diseases of poultry and that has 
not been infected with, exposed to, or immunized with any strain of 
virus that causes Newcastle disease.
    Temperature indicator device (TID). A precalibrated temperature-
measuring instrument containing a chemical compound activated at a 
specific temperature (the melting point of the chemical compound) 
identical to the processing temperature that must be reached by

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the meat being cooked. The Administrator will approve a TID for use 
after determining that the chemical compound in the device is activated 
at the specific temperature required.
    Thoroughly cooked. Heated sufficiently to inactivate any pathogen 
that may be present, as indicated by the required TID or pink juice 
test.
    United States. The several states, the District of Columbia, Puerto 
Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, the Northern 
Mariana Islands, or any other territory or possession of the United 
States, except as provided in Sec. 94.5 of this part.
    Veterinarian in Charge. The veterinary official of the Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of 
Agriculture, who is assigned by the Administrator to supervise and 
perform the official animal health work of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service in the State or area concerned.
    Wild swine. Any swine which are allowed to roam outside an 
enclosure.

[52 FR 33801, Sept. 8, 1987, as amended at 53 FR 48520, Dec. 1, 1988; 54 
FR 7393, Feb. 21, 1989; 54 FR 14794, Apr. 13, 1989; 54 FR 31504, July 
31, 1989; 55 FR 38982, Sept. 24, 1990; 57 FR 43886, Sept. 23, 1992; 59 
FR 13185, Mar. 21, 1994; 61 FR 56891, Nov. 5, 1996; 62 FR 56021, Oct. 
28, 1997]