[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR94.25]

[Page 524-525]
 
                  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. 94.25  Restrictions on importation of live poultry, poultry meat, 
and other poultry products from specified regions.

    The Mexican States of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan, which are 
declared in Sec. 94.6(a)(2) to be free of exotic Newcastle disease 
(END), supplement their meat supply by the importation of fresh (chilled 
or frozen) poultry meat from regions designated in Sec. 94.6(a) as 
regions where END is considered to exist, have a common land border with 
regions where END is considered to exist, or import live poultry from 
regions where END is considered to exist under conditions less 
restrictive than would be acceptable for importation into the United 
States. Thus, even though the Department has declared such regions to be 
free of END, live poultry originating in such free regions may be 
commingled with live poultry originating in an END-affected region and 
the meat and other animal products produced in such free regions may be 
commingled with the fresh (chilled or frozen) meat of animals from an 
END-affected region, resulting in an undue risk of introducing END into 
the United States. Therefore, live poultry, poultry meat and other 
poultry products, and ship stores, airplane meals, and baggage 
containing such meat or animal products originating in the free regions 
listed in this section may not be imported into the United

[[Page 525]]

States unless the following requirements, in addition to all other 
applicable requirements of part 93 of this chapter and of chapter III of 
this title, are met:
    (a) Additional certification. Live poultry, poultry meat, and other 
poultry products from any region designated in this section must be 
accompanied by an additional certification by a full-time salaried 
veterinary officer of the Government of Mexico. Upon arrival of the live 
poultry, poultry meat, or other poultry product in the United States, 
the certification must be presented to an authorized inspector at the 
port of arrival.
    (b) Live poultry. The certification accompanying live poultry must 
identify the exporting region of the poultry as a region designated in 
Sec. 94.6 as free of END at the time the poultry were in the region and 
must state that:
    (1) The poultry have not been in contact with poultry or poultry 
products from any region where END is considered to exist;
    (2) The poultry have not lived in a region where END is considered 
to exist; and
    (3) The poultry have not transited through a region where END is 
considered to exist unless moved directly through the region in a sealed 
means of conveyance with the seal intact upon arrival at the point of 
destination.
    (c) Poultry meat or other poultry products. The certification 
accompanying poultry meat or other poultry products must state that:
    (1) The poultry meat or other poultry products are derived from 
poultry that meet all requirements of this section and that have been 
slaughtered in a region designated in Sec. 94.6 as free of END 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 approved to export poultry meat and other poultry products to 
the United States in accordance with Sec. 381.196 of this title;
    (2) The poultry meat or other poultry products have not been in 
contact with poultry meat or other poultry products from any region 
where END is considered to exist;
    (3) The poultry meat or other poultry products have not transited 
through a region where END is considered to exist unless moved directly 
through the region in a sealed means of conveyance with the seal intact 
upon arrival at the point of destination; and
    (4) If processed, the poultry meat or other poultry products were 
processed in a region designated in Sec. 94.6 as free of END in a 
federally inspected processing plant that is under the direct 
supervision of a full-time salaried veterinarian of the Government of 
Mexico.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0579-0228)

[69 FR 3823, Jan. 27, 2004]