[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR318.12]

[Page 248-249]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 318--ENTRY INTO OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS; REINSPECTION AND PREPARATION OF PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 318.12  Manufacture of dog food or similar uninspected article at official establishments.

    (a) When dog food, or similar uninspected article is manufactured in 
an edible product department, there shall be sufficient space allotted 
and adequate equipment provided so that the manufacture of the 
uninspected article in no way interferes with the handling or 
preparation of edible products. Where necessary to avoid adulteration of 
edible products, separate equipment shall be provided for the 
uninspected article. To assure the maintenance of sanitary conditions in 
the edible product departments, the operations incident to the 
manufacture of the uninspected article will be subject to the same 
sanitary requirements that apply to all operations in edible product 
departments. The manufacture of the uninspected article shall be limited 
to those hours during which the establishment operates under 
inspectional supervision; and there shall be no handling, other than 
receiving at the official establishment, of any of the product 
ingredient of the uninspected article, other than during the regular 
hours of inspection. The materials used in the manufacture of the 
uninspected article shall not be used so as to interfere with the 
inspection of edible product or the maintenance of sanitary conditions 
in the department or render any edible product adulterated. The meat, 
meat byproducts, and meat food product ingredients of the uninspected 
article may be admitted into any edible products department of an 
official establishment only if they are U.S. Inspected and Passed. 
Products within Sec. 314.11 of this subchapter or parts of carcasses of 
kinds not permitted under the regulations in this subchapter to be 
prepared for human food (e.g., lungs or intestines), which are produced 
at any official establishment, may be brought into the inedible products 
department of any official establishment for use in uninspected articles 
under this section. The uninspected article may be stored in, and 
distributed from, edible product departments: Provided, That adequate 
facilities are furnished, there is no interference with the maintenance 
of sanitary conditions, and such article is properly identified.
    (b) When dog food or similar uninspected article is manufactured in 
a part of an official establishment other than an edible product 
department, the area in which the article is

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manufactured shall be separated from edible product departments in the 
manner required for separation between edible product departments and 
inedible product departments. Sufficient space must be allotted and 
adequate equipment provided so that the manufacture of the uninspected 
article does not interfere with the proper functioning of the other 
operations at the establishment. Except as provided in Sec. 314.11 of 
this subchapter, nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as 
permitting any deviation from the requirement that dead animals, 
condemned products, and similar materials of whatever origin, must be 
placed in the inedible product rendering equipment, and without undue 
delay. The manufacture of the uninspected article must be such as not to 
interfere with the maintenance of general sanitary conditions on the 
premises, and it shall be subject to inspectional supervision similar to 
that exercised over other inedible product departments. There shall be 
no movement of any product from an inedible product department to any 
edible product department. Trucks, barrels, and other equipment shall be 
cleaned before being returned to edible product departments from 
inedible product departments. Unoffensive material prepared outside 
edible product departments may be stored in, and distributed from, 
edible product departments only if packaged in clean, properly 
identified, sealed containers.
    (c) Animal food shall be distinguished from articles of human food, 
so as to avoid distribution of such animal food as human food. To 
accomplish this, such animal food shall be labeled or otherwise 
identified in accordance with Sec. 325.11(d) of this subchapter.

[35 FR 15586, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 36 FR 11639, June 17, 1971; 53 
FR 24679, June 30, 1988]