[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR94.13]

[Page 494]
 
                  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), 
 
Sec.  94.13  Restrictions on importation of pork or pork products 
from specified regions.

    Austria, the Bahamas, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, France, 
Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Republic of 
Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, 
Wales, the Isle of Man, and Northern Ireland), Yugoslavia, and the 
Regions in Italy of Friuli, Liguria, Marche, and Valle d'Aosta are 
declared free of swine vesicular disease in Sec.  94.12(a) of this part. 
These regions either supplement their national pork supply by the 
importation of fresh (chilled or frozen) meat of animals from regions 
where swine vesicular disease is considered to exist, have a common 
border with such regions, or have 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 ship's stores, 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 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.