[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: 9CFR95.7]

[Page 541-542]
 
                  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. 95.7  Wool, hair, and bristles; requirements for unrestricted entry.

    Wool, hair, or bristles derived from ruminants and/or swine which do 
not meet the conditions or requirements specified in any one of 
paragraphs (a) to (d) of this section shall not be imported except 
subject to handling and treatment in accordance with Sec. 95.8 after 
their arrival at the port of entry: Provided, however, That no 
bloodstained wool, hair, or bristles shall be imported under any 
condition:
    (a) Such wool, hair, or bristles may be imported without other 
restriction if originating in and shipped directly from a region not 
declared by the Secretary of Agriculture to be infected with foot-and-
mouth disease or rinderpest.
    (b) Wool or hair clipped from live animals or pulled wool or hair 
may be imported without other restriction if the said wool or hair is 
reasonably free from animal manure in the form of dung locks or 
otherwise.
    (c) Wool, hair, or bristles taken from sheep, goats, cattle, or 
swine, when such animals have been slaughtered under national government 
inspection in a region\1\ and in an abattoir in which is maintained an 
inspection service determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be 
adequate to assure that such materials have been removed from animals 
found at time of slaughter to be free from anthrax, foot-and-mouth 
disease, and rinderpest, and to assure further the identity of such 
materials until loaded upon the transporting vessel, may be imported 
without other restriction if accompanied by a certificate bearing the 
seal of the proper department of said national government and signed by 
an official veterinary inspector of such region showing that the therein 
described wool, hair, or bristles were taken from animals slaughtered in 
such specified

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abattoir and found free from anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, and 
rinderpest.
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    \1\ See footnote 1 to Sec. 95.5.
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    (d) Wool, hair, or bristles which have been scoured, thoroughly 
washed, or dyed may be imported without other restriction.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0579-0015)

[28 FR 5981, June 13, 1963, as amended at 48 FR 57472, Dec. 30, 1983; 62 
FR 56024, Oct. 28, 1997]