[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: 9CFR94.24]

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                  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.  94.24  Restrictions on the importation of live swine, pork, or 

pork products from Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, 
and Sinaloa.

    The Mexican States of Baja California, Baja California Sur, 
Chihuahua, and Sinaloa, which are declared to be free of classical swine 
fever (CSF) in Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10, supplement their pork supplies 
with fresh (chilled or frozen) pork imported from regions designated in 
Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10 as being affected by CSF, share a common land 
border with CSF-affected regions, or import live swine from CSF-affected 
regions under conditions less restrictive than would be acceptable for 
importation into the United States. Thus, there exists a possibility 
that live swine, pork, or pork products from the CSF-free regions listed 
in this section may be commingled with live swine, pork, or pork 
products from CSF-affected regions, resulting in a risk of CSF 
introduction into the United States. Therefore, live swine, pork, or 
pork products and shipstores, airplane meals, and baggage containing 
pork or pork products, other than those articles regulated under part 95 
or part 96 of this chapter, originating in the CSF-free regions listed 
in this section shall not be brought into the United States unless the 
following requirements are met in addition to other applicable 
requirements of parts 93 and 327 of this title:
    (a) Live swine. The swine must be accompanied by a certification 
issued by a full-time salaried veterinary officer of the Government of 
Mexico. Upon arrival of the swine in the United States, the 
certification must be presented to an authorized inspector at the port 
of arrival. The certification must identify both the exporting region 
and the region of origin as a region designated in Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 
94.10 as free of classical swine fever at the time the swine were in the 
region and must state that:
    (1) The swine have not lived in a region designated in Sec. Sec.  
94.9 and 94.10 as affected with classical swine fever.
    (2) The swine have never been commingled with swine that have been 
in a region that is designated in Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10 as affected 
with classical swine fever;
    (3) The swine have not transited through a region designated in 
Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10 as affected with classical swine fever unless 
moved directly through the region to their destination in a sealed means 
of conveyance with the seal intact upon arrival at the point of 
destination; and
    (4) The conveyances or materials used in transporting the swine, if 
previously used for transporting swine, have been cleaned and 
disinfected in accordance with the requirements of Sec.  93.502 of this 
subchapter.
    (b) Pork or pork products. The pork or pork products must be 
accompanied by a certification issued by a full-time salaried veterinary 
officer of the Government of Mexico. Upon arrival of the pork or pork 
products in the United States, the certification must be presented to an 
authorized inspector at the port of arrival. The certification must 
identify both the exporting region and the region of origin of the pork 
or pork products as a region designated in Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10 as 
free of classical swine fever at the time the pork or pork products were 
in the region and must state that:
    (1) The pork or pork products were derived from swine that were born 
and raised in a region designated in Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10 as free 
of classical swine fever and were slaughtered in such a region at a 
federally inspected slaughter plant that is under the direct supervision 
of a full-time salaried veterinarian of the Government of Mexico and 
that is eligible to have its products imported into the United States 
under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) and the 
regulations in Sec.  327.2 of this title;
    (2) The pork or pork products have never been commingled with pork 
or pork products that have been in a region that is designated in 
Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10 as affected with classical swine fever;
    (3) The pork or pork products have not transited through a region 
designated in Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10 as affected with classical swine 
fever unless moved directly through the region to their destination in a 
sealed means of conveyance with the seal intact upon arrival at the 
point of destination; and

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    (4) If processed, the pork or pork products were processed in a 
region designated in Sec. Sec.  94.9 and 94.10 as free of classical 
swine fever in a federally inspected processing plant that is under the 
direct supervision of a full-time salaried veterinary official of the 
Government of Mexico.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0579-0230)

[68 FR 47841, Aug. 12, 2003]