Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024
A. A person shall
not buy, sell, offer for sale, store, transport, receive, or collect any meat
or meat food product except as provided in this subsection.
1. Any of the following meat or meat food
products may be bought, sold, or offered for sale as animal food and may be
stored, transported, received, or collected anywhere within the state:
a. Any meat or meat food product that is
processed in an animal food manufacturing plant licensed by the
Department;
b. Any meat or meat
food product that comes from an animal that died by slaughter or is approved or
passed for animal food by either state or federal meat inspectors;
c. Any meat or meat food product that is
thoroughly cooked at a minimum temperature of 180º F for 30 minutes and is
certified by a state or a federal meat inspector having jurisdiction at the
place of processing.
2.
A carcass with the hide, hair, or pelt still on the carcass may be bought,
sold, offered for sale, collected and transported to or received by the
following only:
a. A rendering or tallow
plant;
b. A state or county
diagnostic laboratory, a veterinarian's clinic, or crematory;
c. An animal food manufacturing
plant;
d. A landfill regulated by
the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality;
e. An out-of-state landfill regulated by that
state's landfill regulatory authority; or
f. A landfill located on a Native American
reservation that is regulated by equivalent standards to those prescribed by
the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
3. Any meat or meat food product described in
subsection (A)(1) or a carcass with the hide, hair, or pelt still on the
carcass from an official state or federal slaughter establishment shall be
denatured with a denaturant that will not leave a toxic residue and is
removable when steam-distilled at atmospheric pressure.
4. Any meat or meat food product that has
been condemned by state or federal meat inspectors shall be treated as provided
in
9
CFR 314.3, which has been incorporated by
reference in
R3-2-202,
and may be disposed of as provided in that rule or may be collected and
transported to or received by a rendering or tallow plant or a state or county
diagnostic laboratory or crematory.
B. A person engaged commercially in the
collection or transportation of dead animal carcasses or inedible meat shall
register with the Department as a dead animal hauler as prescribed in
R3-2-203(B) and shall maintain and keep all records for the time required by
R3-2-203(C).
C. A vehicle or other means of conveyance
used to transport a dead animal carcass or inedible meat shall be:
1. Leak-proof,
2. Constructed of impervious materials that
permit thorough cleaning and sanitizing,
3. Equipped to control insects and odors and
prevent the spread of disease, and
4. Comply with the Department of
Environmental Quality vehicle requirements prescribed in R18-13-310(A) and
(B).
D. Except as
provided in subsection (E), a dead animal carcass may be rendered or made into
animal food only at a licensed rendering or animal food manufacturing plant as
prescribed in A.R.S. §
3-2088
and this Article.
E. Dead animals
diagnosed with anthrax or an animal disease foreign to the United States shall
be handled as directed by the State Veterinarian.
F. Discarded animal bone, animal fat, and
animal offal generated by a wholesale food manufacturer shall be transported to
and received by only a:
1. Licensed rendering
plant, or
2. Landfill, as
prescribed in subsections (A)(2)(d), (A)(2)(e), and (A)(2)(f).
