[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 9CFR355.2]



[Page 408-410]

 

                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 355_CERTIFIED PRODUCTS FOR DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER CARNIVORA; 

INSPECTION, CERTIFICATION, AND IDENTIFICATION AS TO CLASS, QUALITY, 

QUANTITY, AND CONDITION--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 355.2  Terms defined.



    When used in this part unless otherwise distinctly expressed or 

manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof:

    (a) Person means any individual, partnership, association, business 

trust, corporation, or any organized group of persons, whether 

incorporated or not.

    (b) Program means the Meat and Poultry Inspection Program of the 

Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of 

Agriculture.

    (c) Circuit supervisor means an inspector of the Program assigned to 

supervise and perform official work at a circuit. Such inspector is 

assigned by and reports directly to the Administrator or other person 

designated by him.

    (d) Inspector means an inspector of the Program.

    (e) Inspected plant means any plant preparing certified products for 

dogs,



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cats, or other carnivora at which inspection is maintained under the 

regulations contained in this part.

    (f) Circuit means one or more inspected plants assigned to a circuit 

supervisor.

    (g) Animal protein supplement means a product containing animal 

protein and other elements normal to the component for use in 

compounding a maintenance food for dogs, cats, and other carnivora.

    (h) Products means the products for dogs, cats, and other carnivora 

marked, or to be marked, with the certification provided in this part.

    (i) Meat means the U.S. inspected and passed and so identified 

clean, wholesome muscle tissue of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which 

is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the 

heart, or in the esophagus with or without the accompanying and 

overlying fat and the portions of skin, sinews, nerves, and blood 

vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not 

separated from it in the process of dressing. It does not include the 

muscle found in the lips, snout, or ears.

    (j) Animal food meat by-product means the part other than meat which 

has been derived from one or more cattle, sheep, swine or goats that 

have been U.S. Inspected and Passed and is fit for use as animal food.

    (k) Horse meat means the U.S. inspected and passed and so identified 

clean, wholesome muscle tissue of horses which is skeletal or which is 

found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the 

esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat and the 

portions of sinews, nerves, and blood vessels which normally accompany 

the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of 

dressing.

    (l) Animal food horse meat by-product means the part other than meat 

which has been derived from one or more horses that have been U.S. 

Inspected and Passed and is fit for use as animal food.

    (m) Mule meat means the clean, sound, healthful, wholesome muscle 

tissue derived from mules as determined by antemortem and postmortem 

inspection by an inspector in accordance with Sec. 355.41. It includes 

muscle tissue which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the 

heart or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and 

overlying fat and the portions of sinews, nerves, and blood vessels 

which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated 

from it in the process of dressing.

    (n) Animal food mule meat by-product means the part other than meat 

which has been derived from one or more mules that have been handled in 

accordance with Sec. 355.41 and is fit for use as animal food.

    (o) Bone means the U.S. inspected and passed and so identified 

clean, wholesome bone which has been derived from cattle, sheep, swine, 

goats or horses, or bone derived from mules slaughtered and passed under 

Program inspection in accordance with Sec. 355.41.

    (p) Poultry means any domesticated bird slaughtered in accordance 

with the Poultry Products Inspection Act, Public Law 85-172, 85th 

Congress, S. 1747, dated August 28, 1957 (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.).

    (q) Poultry product means any edible part of fresh poultry which 

have been slaughtered for human food and from which the blood, feathers, 

feet, head and viscera have been removed in accordance with rules and 

regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture.

    (r) Administrator. The Administrator of the Food Safety and 

Inspection Service or any officer or employee of the Department to whom 

authority has heretofore been delegated or may hereafter be delegated to 

act in his stead.

    (s) Whale meat means the muscle tissue of whales which is fit for 

use in animal food.

    (t) Fish means the whole or part of any aquatic, water breathing 

vertebrates, commonly designated as fish, which is fit for use in animal 

food.

    (u) Animal food poultry byproduct means any portion of carcasses of 

poultry slaughtered under inspection and passed in accordance with the 

Poultry



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Products Inspection Act which is fit for use in animal food.



[23 FR 10107, Dec. 23, 1958, as amended at 25 FR 1356, Feb. 1960; 29 FR 

18418, Dec. 25, 1964. Redesignated and amended at 30 FR 4195, Mar. 31, 

1965; 32 FR 13115, Sept. 15, 1967; 33 FR 6707, May 2, 1968]



                       Scope of Inspection Service