[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: 9CFR94.13]

[Page 500-501]
 
                  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. 94.13  Restrictions on importation of pork or pork products from specified regions.

    Austria, The Bahamas, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, France, 
Germany, Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man), 
Hungary, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Portugal, 
Republic of Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia, which are 
declared to be free of swine vesicular disease in Sec. 94.12(a), are 
regions that either supplement their national pork supply by the 
importation of fresh (chilled or frozen) pork from regions where swine 
vesicular disease is considered to exist; have a common border with such 
regions; or have certain trade practices that are less restrictive than 
are acceptable to the United States. Thus, the pork or pork products 
produced in such regions may be commingled with fresh (chilled or 
frozen) meat of animals from a region where swine vesicular disease is 
considered to exist resulting in an undue risk of swine vesicular 
disease introduction into the United States. Therefore, pork or pork 
products and shipstores, airplane meals, and baggage containing such 
pork, other than those articles regulated under part 95 or part 96 of 
this chapter, produced in such regions shall not be brought into the 
United States unless the following requirements are met in addition to 
other applicable requirements of part 327 of this title:
    (a) All such pork or pork products, except those treated in 
accordance with Sec. 94.12(b)(1)(i) of this part, shall have been 
prepared only in inspected establishments that are eligible to have 
their products imported into the United States under the Federal Meat 
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) and under Sec. 327.2 of this 
title and shall be accompanied by the foreign meat inspection 
certificate required by Sec. 327.4 of this title. Upon arrival of the 
pork or pork products in the United States, the foreign meat inspection 
certificate must be presented to an authorized inspector at the port of 
arrival.
    (b) Unless such pork or pork products are treated according to one 
of the procedures described in Sec. 94.12(b) of this part, the pork or 
pork products must be accompanied by an additional certificate issued by 
a full-time salaried veterinary official of the agency in the national 
government responsible for the health of the animals within that region. 
Upon arrival of the pork or pork products in the United States, the 
certificate must be presented to an authorized inspector at the port of 
arrival. The certificate shall state the name and official establishment 
number of the establishment where the swine involved were slaughtered 
and the pork was processed. The certificate shall also state that:
    (1) The slaughtering establishment is not permitted to receive 
animals that originated in, or have ever been in a region listed in 
Sec. 94.12(a) as a region in which swine vesicular disease is considered 
to exist;
    (2) The slaughtering establishment is not permitted to receive pork 
derived from swine which originated in such a

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region or pork from swine from a swine vesicular disease free region 
which has been transported through a region where swine vesicular 
disease is considered to exist except pork which was transported in 
containers sealed with serially numbered seals of the National 
Government of a region of origin listed in Sec. 94.12 as a region 
considered free of the disease.
    (3) The pork has been processed, stored, and transported to the 
means of conveyance that will bring the article to the United States in 
a manner that precludes its being commingled or otherwise coming in 
contact with pork or pork products that have not been handled in 
accordance with the requirements of this section.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0579-0015)

[38 FR 20611, Aug. 2, 1973]

    Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting Sec. 94.13, 
see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids 
section of the printed volume and on GPO Access.