[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR318.12]

[Page 257-258]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
                            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]