[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR109.1]

[Page 584]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 109--STERILIZATION AND PASTEURIZATION AT LICENSED ESTABLISHMENTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 109.1  Equipment and the like.

    (a) All containers, instruments, and other apparatus and equipment, 
before being used in preparing, handling, or storing biological 
products, at a licensed establishment, except as otherwise prescribed 
herein, shall be thoroughly sterilized by live steam at a temperature of 
at least 120 [deg]C. for not less than one-half hour, or by dry heat at 
a temperature of at least 160 [deg]C. for not less than one hour. If for 
any reason such methods of sterilization are impracticable, then a 
process known to be equally efficacious in destroying microorganisms and 
their spores may be substituted after approval by the Administrator.
    (b) Instruments which are found to be damaged by exposure to the 
degree of heat prescribed in this section, after having been thoroughly 
cleaned, may be sterilized by boiling for not less than 15 minutes.

[23 FR 10051, Dec. 23, 1958, as amended at 34 FR 18119, Nov. 11, 1969; 
56 FR 66783, Dec. 26, 1991]