# Use of Materials Derived From Cattle in Human Food and Cosmetics
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Interim final rule and request for comments. · Published 2008-04-17 · Effective 2008-07-16 · 73 FR 20785
## Document
- **Document number:** 08-1142
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 20785
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 189
- **Publication date:** 2008-04-17
- **Effective date:** 2008-07-16
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 2004N-0081
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations on the use of materials derived from cattle in human food and cosmetics. In these regulations, FDA has designated certain materials from cattle as "prohibited cattle materials" and has banned the use of such materials in human food, including dietary supplements, and in cosmetics. Prohibited cattle materials include specified risk materials (SRMs), the small intestine of all cattle unless the distal ileum is removed, material from nonambulatory disabled cattle, material from cattle not inspected and passed for human consumption, or mechanically separated (MS) (Beef). Specified risk materials include the brain, skull, eyes, trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord, vertebral column (excluding the vertebrae of the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum), and dorsal root ganglia of cattle 30 months of age and older, and the tonsils and distal ileum of the small intestine of all cattle. FDA is amending its regulations so that FDA may designate a country as not subject to certain bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)-related restrictions applicable to FDA regulated human food and cosmetics. A country seeking to be so designated must send a written request to the Director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, including information about the country's BSE case history, risk factors, measures to prevent the introduction and transmission of BSE, and any other relevant information.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/04/17/08-1142/use-of-materials-derived-from-cattle-in-human-food-and-cosmetics)
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