Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 23 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY › Chapter 10 - RENDERING AND PET FEED MANUFACTURING › Section 23-10-005 - Transportation

Current through June 17, 2024
005.01 All trucks and containers used in
				transporting products shall be kept in a sanitary condition.
005.02 All trucks and containers during use
				in transporting carcasses and carcass parts shall be leakproof and constructed
				so that the load is not visible. Trucks and containers shall be cleaned,
				sanitized and disinfected following each unloading and before leaving the
				establishment premises. Such cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting shall
				include both the interior and exterior of trucks, barrels, or any other
				containers used to handle products.
005.03 All trucks hauling carcasses or
				carcass parts shall have the name of the licensee conspicuously displayed on
				both sides of the vehicle whether the trucks are the property of the
				establishment or an agent thereof or are leased or rented by either of the
				aforementioned parties.
005.04
				Drivers of trucks hauling carcasses or carcass parts shall at all times while
				operating such trucks exercise reasonable precautions to prevent the spred of
				infectious, contagious or otherwise transmissible diseases from the
				establishment to and from any premise where livestock is kept.
005.05 Vehicles or containers used to
				transport carcasses or carcass parts for rendering shall insofar as practical
				or economically sound not be used for transporting carcasses or carcass parts
				intended for pet food manufacturing at the same time and shall be completely
				sanitized and disinfected between shipments.
005.06 Inedible meat and carcass parts
				transferred into the State of Nebraska must be consigned to an establishment
				licensed by the Bureau.
005.07
				Intrastate transfer of inedible meat and carcass parts shall be restricted to
				transfers between licensed establishments.
005.08 For the purposes of compliance with
				the entry requirements of other states, restricting the shipment of inedible
				meat and carcass parts without inspection and certification by the shipping
				state, when inedible meat and carcass parts are being transferred out of the
				State of Nebraska, the State Veterinarian may appoint an approved veterinarian
				to certify inedible meat and carcass parts in the name of the State
				Veterinarian, provided, however, that the expense of such certification shall
				be paid by the person requesting the certification of the appointed
				veterinarian.
005.09 All inedible
				meat and carcass parts shall be shipped in containers conspicuously marked with
				the word "Inedible" except where federal meat inspection regulations provide
				that certain containers of undenatured lungs or lung lobes shall be identified
				in two (2) inch lettering with the statement "(SPECIES) Lungs - Not for Human
				Consumption."
005.10 All carriers
				transferring processed inedible meat and carcass parts into or within the State
				of Nebraska must be closed and all outer openings sealed at the point of origin
				with metal numbered seals under the supervision of the approval veterinarian or
				a plant employee under his supervision. The number of seals used must be
				entered on the shipping documents prescribed by the Bureau.
005.11 Shipping documents, completely
				executed shall accompany all transfer of processed inedible meat and carcass
				parts intended for pet food moving into or within the State of Nebraska.
				Shipping documents shall be in the form prescribed by 23 NAC 10-005.12, below.
				Shipping documents shall be completed and executed in quadruplicate as follows:
005.11A Date of shipment - Hour
				shipped.
005.11B Number of
				containers of inedible meat and carcass parts shipped.
005.11C Pounds of inedible meat and carcass
				parts shipped.
005.11D Attestation
				by the approved veterinarian that the inedible meat and carcass parts have been
				processed in establishments having facilities equal to those required in these
				rules and regulations, equivalent inspection, sanitation, are adequately
				decharacterized and have been held within the required temperature
				range.
005.11E Name of plant
				consigning inedible meat and carcass parts.
005.11F Signature of consignor.
005.11G Date and hour shipment received by
				the consignee.
005.11H Name of
				plant receiving inedible meat and carcass parts.
005.11I Signature of consignee.
005.11J Number of seal or seals used to seal
				the carrier at point of origin.
005.11K Number of seal or seals broken at
				destination by consignee.
005.11L
				The consignee is to retain and deliver all broken seals to the
				Bureau.
005.11M Number of
				containers or inedible meat and carcass parts received.
005.11N Pounds of inedible meat and carcass
				parts received.