# Change in Disease Status of France, Ireland, and The Netherlands Because of Foot-and-Mouth Disease
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Interim rule and request for comments. · Published 2001-06-01 · Effective 2001-02-19 · 66 FR 29686
## Document
- **Document number:** 01-13757
- **Category:** meat-poultry
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 66 FR 29686
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 94
- **Publication date:** 2001-06-01
- **Effective date:** 2001-02-19
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 01-031-1
## Abstract

We are amending the regulations governing the importation of certain animals, meat, and other animal products by removing France, Ireland, and The Netherlands from the list of regions considered to be free of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease. We recently removed Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the list of regions considered free of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease because of the confirmed outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in those regions. The outbreak in the United Kingdom has since spread elsewhere in the European Union. We are taking this additional action with respect to France, Ireland, and The Netherlands because the existence of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed there and these Member States do not yet meet the Office International des Epizooties criterion for freedom of foot-and-mouth disease (i.e., a 3-month waiting period after the last case in a region previously recognized as free of the disease). The effect of this action is to prohibit or restrict 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 France, Ireland, and The Netherlands.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/06/01/01-13757/change-in-disease-status-of-france-ireland-and-the-netherlands-because-of-foot-and-mouth-disease)
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