CDC regulations for the importation of animals and animal products (Proceedings)
This lecture will provide an overview of the CDC Zoonoses team.
Objectives
• Provide an overview of the CDC Zoonoses Team
• Explain current CDC animal importation regulations
• Describe proposed CDC regulatory revisions
Zoonoses team mission
Prevent the introduction of diseases of public health significance from imported live animals and animal products through:
• Surveillance
• Inspections
• Investigatiosn
• Regulations of animal movement
Reasons for animal importation
• Incidental and/or accidental
• Exhibition at zoos
• Education and research
• Scientific conservation programs
• Use as food and other products
• Tourism and immigration
• Personal pets
• Commercial pet trade
CDC regulatory authority for the importation of animals and animal products
• 42 Code of Federal Regulations 71 – Foreign Quarantine
• Subpart F – Importations
o 71.41 – Dogs and cats
o 71.42 – Turtles, tortoises and terrapins
o 71.53 – Nonhuman Primates
o 71.54 Etiologic agents, hosts, and vectors
o 71.56 – African rodents
• Subpart D – Health Measures at U.S. Ports: Communicable Diseases
o 71.32(b) – Persons, carriers, things
CDC authority on animal importations summary
• Dogs
o Required to have proof of valid rabies vaccination
o Subject to inspection and veterinary exam if ill
• Cats
o Subject to inspection and veterinary exam if ill
• Turtles <4 inch shell length (7 or more)
o Cannot be brought in for commercial purposes no matter the number
o Can be brought in for science, educational, or exhibition purposes with CDC permit
• Nonhuman primates (NHPs)
o Cannot be brought in as pets
o Cannot be brought in for commercial purposes
o Only imported by registered importers
• NHP Importation Requirements
o Minimum 31-day quarantine required
o Testing for infectious diseases required
o M. tuberculosis
• African Rodents
o May only be brought in for science, educational or exhibition purposes
o Must have permission from CDC Zoonoses Team
• Etiologic agents, hosts, and vectors include
o Bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc.
o Bats
o Can only be brought in for science, education or exhibition
o Must have a CDC etiologic agent permit
o NHP trophies
• Persons, carriers or things include
o Civets
o May only be brought in for science, educational or exhibition purposes
o Must have permission from CDC Zoonoses Team
o Haitian goat skin products (e.g., drums)
Relevant websites
• www.cdc.gov/animalimportation/
• www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/awr.shtml
• www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/animals/animal_import/animal_imports.shtml
