Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 21 - Agriculture and Land Stewardship Department › Chapter 76 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › Rule 21-76.8 - Dead, Dying, Disabled or Diseased Animals

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
Persons shall not engage in the business of buying, selling,
				transporting in intrastate Cornmerce, dead, dying, disabled or diseased
				animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animal, unless they have been
				licensed for the purpose of disposing of the bodies of dead animals pursuant to
				Iowa Code section
				167.2.
				All persons so engaged are subject to the provisions of Iowa Code chapter 167
				and regulations of 21-Chapter 61, "Dead Animal Disposal," Iowa Administrative
				Code.
(1) All rendering plants engaged
			 in processing fallen or dead animals into pet food and pet food processing
			 plants shall be inspected by the meat and poultry section in accordance with
			 Iowa Code chapter 167 before registration is approved.
(2) The plant shall engage the services of a
			 licensed veterinarian, approved by the department, to inspect carcasses for the
			 presence of Cornmunicable disease or harmful contamination or adulteration and
			 evidence of deCornposition. Any of these conditions shall be cause for the
			 carcass to be condemned as unfit for processing into pet animal food.
All Cornpensation for the veterinarian employed by the
				rendering plant and pet animal food processing plants processing inedible meat
				and carcass parts for pet food shall be paid by the plant.
(3) Fallen or dead animals which are
			 recovered and transported to the processing plant shall be immediately skinned
			 and eviscerated, except the lungs, heart, kidneys and liver, which shall be
			 left attached to the carcass, and the carcasses shall be stored in a chill room
			 with attached viscera until inspected and approved by a veterinary inspector
			 The stomach or stomachs, together with the entire intestinal tract, shall be
			 tagged immediately with serially numbered tags and stamped with the word
			 "inedible." The word "inedible" shall be not less than one-half inch high.
			 Condemned carcasses shall be deeply slashed on the round, rump, loin and
			 shoulder, denatured with a ten percent solution of cresylic acid or other
			 decharacterizing agent approved by the department of agriculture and land
			 stewardship and removed to a rendering plant prior to the close of the working
			 day.
(4) The department shall
			 inspect each place registered under Iowa Code chapter I89A or licensed under
			 Iowa Code chapter 167 at least once a year, and as often as it deems necessary
			 and shall see that the registrant conducts the business in conformity to both
			 chapters and these rules.
(5)
			 Rendering plants and pet animal food processing plants may process fallen or
			 dead animals into pet food where the animals are recovered and transported to a
			 processing plant within a reasonable time following the death of an animal and
			 before deCornposition occurs.
(6)
			 Processing facilities, when located in or operated in conjunction with a
			 rendering plant, shall be in a separate area equipped and used only for
			 skinning, eviscerating, deboning, grinding, decharacterizing, packaging and
			 labeling of inedible meat and carcass parts to be used in pet animal food.
			 Rendering facilities approved by the department shall be available to process
			 materials not suitable for pet animal food.
(7) These rules shall also govern the
			 collection, transportation and processing of other inedible material such as
			 lungs, livers, hearts, spleens, poultry and poultry parts obtained from
			 slaughterhouses, packing plants or other sources, to be used in the processing
			 and manufacture of pet animal food.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections I89A.8,
				167.5 and 167.14.