[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: 9CFR325.21]

[Page 340-341]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 325_TRANSPORTATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 325.21  Means of conveyance in which dead, dying, disabled, or 
diseased livestock and parts of carcasses thereof shall be transported.

    All vehicles and other means of conveyance used by persons subject 
to Sec. 325.20 for transporting in commerce or importing, any dead, 
dying, disabled, and diseased livestock or parts of carcasses of 
livestock that died otherwise than by slaughter shall be leak-proof and 
so constructed and equipped as to permit thorough cleaning and 
sanitizing. The means of conveyance so used in conveying such livestock, 
or parts thereof, shall be cleaned and disinfected prior to use in the 
transportation of any product intended for use as human food. The 
cleaning procedure shall include the complete removal from the means of 
conveyance of any fluid, parts, or product of such dead, dying, 
disabled, or diseased livestock and the thorough application of a 
disinfectant to the interior surfaces of the cargo space. Substances 
permitted for such use are:
    (a) ``Liquified phenol'' (U.S.P. strength 87 percent phenol) in the 
proportion of at least 6 fluid ounces to 1 gallon of water.

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    (b) ``Cresylic disinfectant'' in the proportion of not less than 4 
fluid ounces to 1 gallon of water; and such other disinfectants as are 
approved by the Administrator in specific cases. The use of ``cresylic 
disinfectant'' is permitted subject to the conditions prescribed in 
Sec. 71.10(b) of this title.