Change in Disease Status of Japan Because of Rinderpest and Foot-and-Mouth Disease
meat-poultry · Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Rule · Published 2000-07-14 · Effective 2000-03-08 · 65 FR 43682
Document
Document number
00-17885
Federal Register citation
65 FR 43682
CFR reference
9 CFR 94
Type
Rule
Action
Affirmation of interim rule as final rule.
Category
meat-poultry
Sub-agency
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Publication date
2000-07-14
Effective date
2000-03-08
USDA docket
Docket No. 00-031-2
Abstract
We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that removed Japan from the list of regions declared free of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease. We took this action because the existence of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed there. The interim rule prohibits or restricts the importation of any ruminant or swine and any fresh (chilled or frozen) meat and other products of ruminants or swine into the United States from Japan. The interim rule was necessary to protect the livestock of the United States from foot-and- mouth disease.