[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

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

[CITE: 9CFR318.12]



[Page 256-257]

 

                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 318_ENTRY INTO OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS; REINSPECTION AND

PREPARATION OF PRODUCTS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 318.12  Manufacture of dog food or similar uninspected article at official establishments.



    (a) When dog food, or similar uninspected article is manufactured in 

an edible product department, there shall be sufficient space allotted 

and adequate equipment provided so that the manufacture of the 

uninspected article in no way interferes with the handling or 

preparation of edible products. Where necessary to avoid adulteration of 

edible products, separate equipment shall be provided for the 

uninspected article. To assure the maintenance of sanitary conditions in 

the edible product departments, the operations incident to the 

manufacture of the uninspected article will be subject to the same 

sanitary requirements that apply to all operations in edible product 

departments. The manufacture of the uninspected article shall be limited 

to those hours during which the establishment operates under 

inspectional



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supervision; and there shall be no handling, other than receiving at the 

official establishment, of any of the product ingredient of the 

uninspected article, other than during the regular hours of inspection. 

The materials used in the manufacture of the uninspected article shall 

not be used so as to interfere with the inspection of edible product or 

the maintenance of sanitary conditions in the department or render any 

edible product adulterated. The meat, meat byproducts, and meat food 

product ingredients of the uninspected article may be admitted into any 

edible products department of an official establishment only if they are 

U.S. Inspected and Passed. Products within Sec. 314.11 of this 

subchapter or parts of carcasses of kinds not permitted under the 

regulations in this subchapter to be prepared for human food (e.g., 

lungs or intestines), which are produced at any official establishment, 

may be brought into the inedible products department of any official 

establishment for use in uninspected articles under this section. The 

uninspected article may be stored in, and distributed from, edible 

product departments: Provided, That adequate facilities are furnished, 

there is no interference with the maintenance of sanitary conditions, 

and such article is properly identified.

    (b) When dog food or similar uninspected article is manufactured in 

a part of an official establishment other than an edible product 

department, the area in which the article is manufactured shall be 

separated from edible product departments in the manner required for 

separation between edible product departments and inedible product 

departments. Sufficient space must be allotted and adequate equipment 

provided so that the manufacture of the uninspected article does not 

interfere with the proper functioning of the other operations at the 

establishment. Except as provided in Sec. 314.11 of this subchapter, 

nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as permitting any deviation 

from the requirement that dead animals, condemned products, and similar 

materials of whatever origin, must be placed in the inedible product 

rendering equipment, and without undue delay. The manufacture of the 

uninspected article must be such as not to interfere with the 

maintenance of general sanitary conditions on the premises, and it shall 

be subject to inspectional supervision similar to that exercised over 

other inedible product departments. There shall be no movement of any 

product from an inedible product department to any edible product 

department. Trucks, barrels, and other equipment shall be cleaned before 

being returned to edible product departments from inedible product 

departments. Unoffensive material prepared outside edible product 

departments may be stored in, and distributed from, edible product 

departments only if packaged in clean, properly identified, sealed 

containers.

    (c) Animal food shall be distinguished from articles of human food, 

so as to avoid distribution of such animal food as human food. To 

accomplish this, such animal food shall be labeled or otherwise 

identified in accordance with Sec. 325.11(d) of this subchapter.



[35 FR 15586, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 36 FR 11639, June 17, 1971; 53 

FR 24679, June 30, 1988]