[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: 9CFR351.5]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 351--CERTIFICATION OF TECHNICAL ANIMAL FATS FOR EXPORT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 351.5  Conditions of eligibility for certification service; review of applications.

    (a) To be eligible for certification service under the regulations 
in this part, the operator of a rendering plant must demonstrate that:
    (1) He operates a rendering plant which will receive materials 
derived from inspected and passed carcasses, or parts of carcasses, of 
animals that did not die otherwise than by slaughter under inspection, 
(i.e., not ``dead animals''); and such source materials will be rendered 
at the plant into technical animal fat eligible for export, or storage 
for export, in accordance with the regulations in this part;
    (2) The source materials and the rendered technical animal fat 
described in paragraph (a)(1) will be identified and kept separated at 
all times from other products; and

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    (3) He will comply with the applicable regulations in this part.
    (b) To be eligible for certification service under the regulations 
in this part, the operator of a storage facility must demonstrate that:
    (1) He operates a storage facility that will receive for storage 
certified technical animal fat shipped directly from a certified 
rendering plant for storage for export and he will keep such shipments 
identified and separated from other products that are not certified, and 
he will receive such fat only if it is accompanied by MP Form 85, as 
required by Sec. 351.17.
    (2) He will comply with the applicable regulations in this part.
    (c) Each applicant for certification service must file with the 
Administrator, with the application for service, a written description 
of the procedures to be used for receiving, identifying, processing, 
storing, and otherwise handling technical animal fat, and materials for 
use in the preparation thereof, at the plant or storage facility 
involved, and for shipping technical animal fat from the plant or 
facility and storing and exporting such technical animal fat, and a 
written description of the shipping, receiving, and inventory records 
maintained for technical animal fat.
    (d) The Administrator will determine, on the basis of all 
information available to him, whether the arrangements at the plant or 
storage facility are such as will assure that certifications of 
technical animal fat will be correct, and, if so, will grant the 
application for certification service. An applicant will be given an 
opportunity to present his views prior to refusal of the service.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0583-0036)

[40 FR 58627, Dec. 18, 1975, as amended at 41 FR 12637, Mar. 26, 1976; 
47 FR 746, Jan. 7, 1982]