The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending its regulations to define yak and include it among “exotic animals” eligible for voluntary inspection under 9 CFR part 352. This change is in response to a petition for rulemaking from a yak industry association, which FSIS granted in 2015. Additionally, FSIS is revising the definitions of antelope, bison, buffalo, catalo, deer, elk, reindeer, and water buffalo to make them more scientifically accurate. Moreover, FSIS is responding to comments on whether all farmed-raised species in the biological families Bovidae, Cervidae, and Camelidae, if not already subject to mandatory inspection, should be eligible for voluntary inspection, and whether any species in these families should be added to the list of amenable species requiring mandatory inspection.

Dates

Effective September 13, 2021.

Correction

This final rule correction is effective July 28, 2021: In final rule FR Doc. 2021-15062, beginning on page 37216 in the issue of July 15, 2021, make the following correction:  On page 37216 in the second column, the Regulation Identifier Number is corrected to read “RIN 0583-AD80”.

For Further Information Contact

Rachel Edelstein, Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy and Program Development by telephone at (202) 205-0495.