[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: 9CFR355.2]

[Page 399-400]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 355--CERTIFIED PRODUCTS FOR DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER CARNIVORA; INSPECTION, CERTIFICATION, AND IDENTIFICATION AS TO CLASS, QUALITY, QUANTITY, AND CONDITION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 355.2  Terms defined.

    When used in this part unless otherwise distinctly expressed or 
manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof:
    (a) Person means any individual, partnership, association, business 
trust, corporation, or any organized group of persons, whether 
incorporated or not.
    (b) Program means the Meat and Poultry Inspection Program of the 
Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of 
Agriculture.
    (c) Circuit supervisor means an inspector of the Program assigned to 
supervise and perform official work at a circuit. Such inspector is 
assigned by and reports directly to the Administrator or other person 
designated by him.
    (d) Inspector means an inspector of the Program.
    (e) Inspected plant means any plant preparing certified products for 
dogs, cats, or other carnivora at which inspection is maintained under 
the regulations contained in this part.
    (f) Circuit means one or more inspected plants assigned to a circuit 
supervisor.
    (g) Animal protein supplement means a product containing animal 
protein and other elements normal to the component for use in 
compounding a maintenance food for dogs, cats, and other carnivora.
    (h) Products means the products for dogs, cats, and other carnivora 
marked, or to be marked, with the certification provided in this part.
    (i) Meat means the U.S. inspected and passed and so identified 
clean, wholesome muscle tissue of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which 
is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the 
heart, or in the esophagus with or without the accompanying and 
overlying fat and the portions of skin, sinews, nerves, and blood 
vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not 
separated from it in the process of dressing. It does not include the 
muscle found in the lips, snout, or ears.
    (j) Animal food meat by-product means the part other than meat which 
has been derived from one or more cattle, sheep, swine or goats that 
have been U.S. Inspected and Passed and is fit for use as animal food.
    (k) Horse meat means the U.S. inspected and passed and so identified 
clean, wholesome muscle tissue of horses which is skeletal or which is 
found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the 
esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat and the 
portions of sinews, nerves, and blood vessels which normally accompany 
the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of 
dressing.
    (l) Animal food horse meat by-product means the part other than meat 
which has been derived from one or more horses that have been U.S. 
Inspected and Passed and is fit for use as animal food.
    (m) Mule meat means the clean, sound, healthful, wholesome muscle 
tissue derived from mules as determined by antemortem and postmortem 
inspection by an inspector in accordance with Sec. 355.41. It includes 
muscle tissue which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the 
heart or in the

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esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat and the 
portions of sinews, nerves, and blood vessels which normally accompany 
the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of 
dressing.
    (n) Animal food mule meat by-product means the part other than meat 
which has been derived from one or more mules that have been handled in 
accordance with Sec. 355.41 and is fit for use as animal food.
    (o) Bone means the U.S. inspected and passed and so identified 
clean, wholesome bone which has been derived from cattle, sheep, swine, 
goats or horses, or bone derived from mules slaughtered and passed under 
Program inspection in accordance with Sec. 355.41.
    (p) Poultry means any domesticated bird slaughtered in accordance 
with the Poultry Products Inspection Act, Public Law 85-172, 85th 
Congress, S. 1747, dated August 28, 1957 (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.).
    (q) Poultry product means any edible part of fresh poultry which 
have been slaughtered for human food and from which the blood, feathers, 
feet, head and viscera have been removed in accordance with rules and 
regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture.
    (r) Administrator. The Administrator of the Food Safety and 
Inspection Service or any officer or employee of the Department to whom 
authority has heretofore been delegated or may hereafter be delegated to 
act in his stead.
    (s) Whale meat means the muscle tissue of whales which is fit for 
use in animal food.
    (t) Fish means the whole or part of any aquatic, water breathing 
vertebrates, commonly designated as fish, which is fit for use in animal 
food.
    (u) Animal food poultry byproduct means any portion of carcasses of 
poultry slaughtered under inspection and passed in accordance with the 
Poultry Products Inspection Act which is fit for use in animal food.

[23 FR 10107, Dec. 23, 1958, as amended at 25 FR 1356, Feb. 1960; 29 FR 
18418, Dec. 25, 1964. Redesignated and amended at 30 FR 4195, Mar. 31, 
1965; 32 FR 13115, Sept. 15, 1967; 33 FR 6707, May 2, 1968]

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