[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR53.5]

[Page 171]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 53_FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, PLEUROPNEUMONIA, RINDERPEST, AND CERTAIN 
OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF LIVESTOCK OR POULTRY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 53.5  Disinfection or destruction of materials.

    (a) In order to prevent the spread of disease, materials 
contaminated by or exposed to disease shall be disinfected: Provided, 
however, That in all cases in which the cost of disinfection would 
exceed the value of the materials or disinfection would be impracticable 
for any reason, the materials shall be destroyed, after appraisal as 
provided in Sec. 53.3.
    (b) The disinfection or destruction of materials under this section 
shall be under the supervision of an APHIS employee who shall prepare 
and transmit to the Administrator a certificate identifying all 
materials which are destroyed, showing the disposition thereof.

[28 FR 5935, June 13, 1963, as amended at 56 FR 51974, Oct. 17, 1991]