[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: 9CFR95.1]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 95_SANITARY CONTROL OF ANIMAL BYPRODUCTS (EXCEPT CASINGS), AND 
HAY AND STRAW, OFFERED FOR ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  95.1  Definitions.




Sec.
95.1 Definitions.
95.2 Region of origin.
95.3 Byproducts from diseased animals prohibited.
95.4 Restrictions on the importation of processed animal protein, offal, 
          tankage, fat, glands, certain tallow other than tallow 
          derivatives, and serum due to bovine spongiform 
          encephalopathy.
95.5 Untanned hides and skins; requirements for unrestricted entry.
95.6 Untanned hides and skins; importations permitted subject to 
          restrictions.
95.7 Wool, hair, and bristles; requirements for unrestricted entry.
95.8 Wool, hair, and bristles; importations permitted subject to 
          restrictions.
95.9 Glue stock; requirements for unre stricted entry.
95.10 Glue stock; importations permitted subject to restrictions.
95.11 Bones, horns, and hoofs for trophies or museums; disinfected 
          hoofs.
95.12 Bones, horns, and hoofs; importations permitted subject to 
          restrictions.
95.13 Bone meal for use as fertilizer or as feed for domestic animals; 
          requirements for entry.
95.14 Blood meal, tankage, meat meal, and similar products, for use as 
          fertilizer or animal feed; requirements for entry.
95.15 Blood meal, blood albumin, intestines, and other animal byproducts 
          for industrial use; requirements for unre stricted entry.
95.16 Blood meal, blood albumin, intestines, and other animal byproducts 
          for industrial use; importations permitted subject to 
          restrictions.
95.17 Glands, organs, ox gall, and like materials; requirements for 
          unrestricted entry.
95.18 Glands, organs, ox gall, and like materials; importations 
          permitted subject to restrictions.
95.19 Animal stomachs.
95.20 Animal manure.
95.21 Hay and straw; requirements for unrestricted entry.
95.22 Hay and straw; importations permitted subject to restrictions.
95.23 Previously used meat covers; importations permitted subject to 
          restrictions.
95.24 Methods for disinfection of hides, skins, and other materials.
95.25 Transportation of restricted import products; placarding cars and 
          marking billing; unloading enroute.
95.26 Railroad cars, trucks, boats, aircraft and other means of 
          conveyance, equipment or containers, yards, and premises; 
          cleaning and disinfection.
95.27 Regulations applicable to products from Territorial possessions.
95.28 Hay or straw and similar material from tick-infested areas.
95.29 Certification for certain materials.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 8301-8317; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 
9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.

    Source: 28 FR 5981, June 13, 1963, unless otherwise noted.


    Whenever in the regulations in this part the following words, names, 
or terms are used they shall be construed, respectively, to mean:
    Administrator means the Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service, or any individual authorized to act for the 
Administrator.
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) means the Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of 
Agriculture.
    Animal byproducts means hides, skins, hair, wool, glue stock, bones, 
hoofs, horns, bone meal, hoof meal, horn meal, blood meal, meat meal, 
tankage, glands, organs, or other parts or products of ruminants and 
swine unsuitable for human consumption.
    Approved chlorinating equipment means equipment approved by 
Veterinary Services as efficient for the disinfection of effluents 
against the contagions of foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest.
    Approved establishment means an establishment approved by Veterinary 
Services for the receipt and handling of restricted import animal 
byproducts.

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    Approved sewerage system means a drainage system equipped and 
operated so as to carry and dispose of sewage without endangering 
livestock through the contamination of streams or fields and approved by 
the Veterinary Services.
    Approved warehouse means a warehouse having facilities approved by 
Veterinary Services for the handling and storage, apart from other 
merchandise, of restricted import products.
    Blood meal means dried blood of animals.
    Bone meal means ground animal bones and hoof meal and horn meal.
    Department means the United States Department of Agriculture.
    Deputy Administrator of Veterinary Services means the Deputy 
Administrator of Veterinary Services.
    Glue stock means fleshings, hide cuttings and parings, tendons, or 
other collagenous parts of animal carcasses.
    Hay and straw means dried grasses, clovers, legumes, and similar 
materials or stalks or stems of various grains, such as barley, oats, 
rice, rye, and wheat.
    Inspector means an inspector of Veterinary Services.
    Meat meal or tankage means the rendered and dried carcasses or parts 
of the carcasses of animals.
    Processed animal protein means meat meal, bone meal, meat and bone 
meal, blood meal, dried plasma and other blood products, hydrolyzed 
proteins, hoof meal, horn meal, poultry meal, feather meal, fish meal, 
and any other similar products.
    Region. Any defined geographic land area identifiable by geological, 
political, or surveyed boundaries. A region may consist of any of the 
following:
    (1) A national entity (country);
    (2) Part of a national entity (zone, county, department, 
municipality, parish, Province, State, etc.)
    (3) Parts of several national entities combined into an area; or
    (4) A group of national entities (countries) combined into a single 
area.
    United States means the several States, the District of Columbia, 
Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of 
the United States, and all other territories and possessions of the 
United States.
    Veterinary Services means the Veterinary Services unit of the Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of 
Agriculture.

[28 FR 5981, June 13, 1963, as amended at 56 FR 19796, Apr. 30, 1991; 56 
FR 63869, Dec. 6, 1991; 62 FR 56024, Oct. 28, 1997; 66 FR 42600, Aug. 
14, 2001]