[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: 9CFR325.20]



[Page 338-339]

 

                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 325_TRANSPORTATION--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 325.20  Transportation and other transactions concerning dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock, and parts of carcasses of livestock that died 

          otherwise than by slaughter.



    No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or 

transporting in commerce, or importing any dead, dying, disabled or 

diseased animals or parts of



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the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter 

shall:

    (a) Buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, in 

commerce, or import any dead livestock if its hide or skin has been 

removed;

    (b) Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive 

for transportation, in commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased 

livestock, or parts of the carcasses of any livestock that died 

otherwise than by slaughter, unless such livestock and parts are 

consigned and delivered, without avoidable delay, to establishments of 

animal food manufacturers, renderers, or collection stations that are 

registered as required by part 320 of this subchapter, or to official 

establishments that operate under Federal inspection, or to 

establishments that operate under a State or Territorial inspection 

system approved by the Secretary as one that imposes requirements at 

least equal to the Federal requirements for purposes of paragraph 301(c) 

of the Act; \4\

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    \4\ A list of such registrants, States, and amendments thereof, will 

be published in the Federal Register, and information concerning the 

registration status of particular animal food manufacturers, renderers, 

or collection stations, or the status of particular States or 

Territories may also be obtained from the Director, Administrative 

Management Staff, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.

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    (c) Buy in commerce or import any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased 

livestock or parts of the carcasses of any livestock that died otherwise 

than by slaughter, unless he is an animal food manufacturer or renderer 

and is registered as required by part 320 of this subchapter, or is the 

operator of an establishment inspected as required by paragraph (b) of 

this section and such livestock or parts of carcasses are to be 

delivered to establishments eligible to receive them under paragraph (b) 

of this section;

    (d) Unload en route to any establishment eligible to receive them 

under paragraph (b) of this section, any dead, dying, disabled, or 

diseased livestock or parts of the carcasses of any livestock that died 

otherwise than by slaughter, which are transported in commerce or 

imported by any such person: Provided, That any such dead, dying, 

disabled, or diseased livestock, or parts of carcasses may be unloaded 

from a means of conveyance en route where necessary in case of a wreck 

or otherwise extraordinary emergency, and may be reloaded into another 

means of conveyance; but in all such cases, the carrier shall 

immediately report the facts by telegraph or telephone to the Compliance 

Staff, Meat and Poultry Inspection Field Operations, Food Safety and 

Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 

20250.

    (e) Load into any means of conveyance containing any dead, dying, 

disabled, or diseased livestock, or parts of the carcasses of any 

livestock that died otherwise than by slaughter, while in the course of 

importation or other transportation in commerce any livestock or parts 

of carcasses not within the foregoing description or any other products 

or other commodities.



[35 FR 15605, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 42 FR 42309, Aug. 23, 1977]