(b) The listing of a supplier as an approved source of supply for a specified food or beverage shall be based upon:

(1) Appropriate inspections, as may be indicated and practicable, of such food or beverage and of the premises whereon it is produced, processed and distributed, carried out from time to time by representatives of the Health Bureau; and

(2) A determination by the Health Director or his designee that such food or beverage as furnished by such supplier conforms to acceptable standards of purity and quality.

(c) In the cases of milk, milk products, frozen desserts, meat, meat-food products, meat by-products, and poultry, the Health Director shall, to the greatest extent practicable, apply the most recent standards and specifications of purity and quality which are prescribed for such products, respectively, in the Milk Ordinance and Code recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service, the Frozen Desserts Ordinance and Code recommended by such service, the Regulations Governing Meat Inspection of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Poultry Ordinance of the U.S. Public Health Service.

(d) The Health Director or his designee shall promptly distribute copies of the list provided for in this section, and of any and all changes therein and additions thereto, to each food-handling establishment in the Canal Zone which submits its name and address to the Health Bureau.

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A food-handling establishment in the Canal Zone or person acting for or on its behalf may not procure any food or beverage for serving or sale in the establishment from any source of supply on the Isthmus of Panama other than (a) a supplier listed as provided by § 61.92 as an approved source of supply for such specific food or beverage, or (b) another food-handling establishment in Canal Zone. § 61.94 Delivery to food-handling establishments or from house to house. (a) A person may not engage in the delivery of any food or beverage to any food-handling establishment in the Canal Zone, or engage in the house-tohouse delivery of any food or beverage in the Canal Zone, unless (1) the person is

listed as provided by § 61.92 as an approved source of supply for such specific food or beverage, or is an employee of a person so listed, and (2) the person so listed is the holder of a valid, unexpired license, issued by the Health Director or by his authority authorizing such delivery operation.

(b) This section does not apply to the delivery of foods or beverages by a foodhandling establishment situated in the Canal Zone.

(c) A person holding a license under this section shall not be required, for the same operations, to obtain the license for the peddling of food prescribed by Part 63 of this chapter.

§ 61.95 Applicability to military areas.

This subpart does not apply to any military, naval, or air fore reservation within the Canal Zone.

§ 61.96 Penalties for violation.

As provided by 2 C.Z.C. 912, 76A Stat. 36, whoever violates a provision of this subpart shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both; and each day the violation continues constitutes a separate offense. Subpart E-Maritime and Aircraft Quarantine

DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS § 61.121 Definitions.

As used in this subpart:

"Aedes aegypti Index" means the ratio, expressed as a percentage between the number of houses in a limited well-defined area on the premises of which actual breeding-places of Aedes aegypti are found, and the total number of houses examined in that area.

"Aircraft" means an aircraft making an international voyage.

"Aircraft General Declaration" means the form approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization and set forth in a revised edition of Annex 9 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation. The revised Declaration of Health portion of the form is also approved by the World Health Organization and set forth in Appendix 6 of the International Sanitary Regulations.

"Certificate of vaccination" means a certificate of vaccination or revaccination against cholera, smallpox or yellow fever conforming with the rules and models prescribed by the International Sanitary Regulations.

"Communicable disease" means an illness due to an infectious agent or its toxic products which is transmitted directly or indirectly to a well person from an affected person, animal, or arthropod (including insecta and arachnida) or through the agency of an intermediate host, vector or the inanimate environment.

"Contamination" means the presence of undersirable substance or material which may contain pathogenic microorganisms.

"Day" means a period of 24 hours.

"Deratting certificate" means a certificate issued with respect to a vessel by the competent health authority of a port, in the form prescribed by the International Sanitary Regulations, recording the inspection and deratting of the vessel.

"Deratting

exemption certificate" means a certificate issued with respect to a vessel by the competent health authority of a port, in the form prescribed by the International Sanitary Regulations, recording the inspection and exemption from deratting of the vessel which has a negligible number of rodents on board.

"Disinfection" means the act of rendering anything free from the causal agents of disease.

"Disinfestation" means the act of destroying the vectors of a communicable disease.

"Disinsecting" means the act of destroying insects or other anthropod vectors of communicable disease.

"Foreign port" means any seaport or airport other than a port under the control of the United States, a port of the Canal Zone, or the seaports or riverports of the Republic of Panama.

"Fumigation" means the process by which the destruction of vermin and rodents is accomplished by the employment of gaseous agents.

"Immunity" means the condition of being protected against a particular disease, either as a result of artificial immunization or through a previous attack of the disease in question.

"Incubation period" means the period between the implanting of disease organisms in a susceptible person and the appearance of clinical manifestations of the disease.

"Infected local area" means a local area (as defined in the International Sanitary Regulations): (1) Where there

is a nonimported case of cholera or smallpox; or (2) where there is a nonimported case of plague, or there is plague infection among rodents; or (3) where there is a nonimported case of yellow fever, or there is activity of yellow fever virus in vertebrates other than man; or (4) where there is an epidemic of typhus or relapsing fever.

"Infected person" means any person who is suffering from a quarantinable disease or who is considered by the quarantine officer in charge to be infected with such a disease.

"Infected vessel or aircraft", with respect to meaning, is determined by reference to particular quarantinable diseases as set forth in §§ 61.221 through 61.231.

"International Sanitary Regulations" means the International Sanitary Regulations (World Health Organization Regulations No. 2) adopted by the Fourth World Health Assembly on May 25, 1951, as amended by subsequent Assemblies.

"Isolation" means (1) when applied to a person or group of persons, the separation of that person or group of persons from other persons in such a manner as to prevent the spread of infection; and (2) when applied to animals, the separation of an animal or group of animals from other animals or vectors of disease in such a manner as to prevent the spread of infection.

"Local area" means the smallest area within a territory, which may be a port or airport, having a defined boundary and possessing a health organization which is able to apply the appropriate sanitary measures permitted or prescribed by the International Sanitary Regulations; the situation of such an area within a larger area which also possesses such a health organization shall not preclude the smaller area from being a local area for the purposes of the International Sanitary Regulations.

"Port of the Canal Zone" means any seaport or airport in the Canal Zone.

"Port under the control of the United States" means any seaport or airport in the United States, in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and in territories or possessions of the United States other than the Canal Zone.

"Pratique" means a certificate issued by a quarantine office releasing or provisionally releasing a vessel or aircraft from quarantine.

"Quarantine" means the detention of a person, vessel, aircraft or other conveyance, animal or thing, in such place and for such period of time as may be specified in the regulations in this subpart.

"Quarantine officer" means a medical officer or other specially trained employee assigned to quarantine duty by authority of the Governor.

"Quarantine officer in charge" means the quarantine officer of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Quarantine responsible for the application of these regulations at a designated place or in a designated area.

"Quarantinable disease" means the specific communicable disease: cholera, plague, louse-borne relapsing fever, smallpox, louse-borne typhus, or yellow fever.

"Rodents" means gnawing mammals capable of transmitting or harboring quarantinable diseases.

"Surveillance" means the temporary supervision of a person who has been released from quarantine by the quarantine officer in charge upon the condition that he will submit himself to further medical examination or inquiry as required.

"Suspect" means a person who is considered by the quarantine officer in charge as having been exposed to infection by a quarantinable disease and to be capable of spreading that disease.

"Suspected vessel or aircraft", with respect to meaning, is determined by reference to particular quarantinable diseases as set forth in §§ 61.221 through 61.231.

"Valid" means (1) with respect to a Deratting Certificate or Deratting Exemption Certificate issued for a vessel, a certificate issued by the competent health authority for a port not more than 6 months before presentation of the certificate to the quarantine officer, or if the vessel is proceeding to a port designated or approved for the issuance of such certificates, not more than 7 months before such presentation; and (2) with respect to a Certificate of Vaccination, a certificate presented within the applicable period of immunity prescribed in § 61.123.

"Vector" means an animal (including insects), plant, or thing which conveys or is capable of conveying pathogenic organisms from a person or animal to another person or animal.

"Yellow fever receptive area" means an area in which the virus of yellow

fever does not exist but where the presence of Aedes aegypti or any other domiciliary or peri-domiciliary vector of yellow fever would permit its development if introduced.

§ 61.122 Periods of isolation and surveillance.

Except as otherwise provided with respect to infected persons, where isolation or surveillance is authorized in this part, the period of such isolation or surveillance shall be reckoned as hereinafter provided and shall not exceed the following appropriate incubation period of the quarantinable diseases:

(a) Plague: 6 days. (b) Cholera: 5 days. (c) Yellow fever: 6 days. (d) Smallpox: 14 days. (e) Typhus: 14 days. (f) Relapsing fever: 8 days. § 61.123 Periods of immunity.

The following shall be the recognized period of immunity after successful immunization; in the case of yellow fever, the vaccine must be approved by the World Health Organization:

Cholera: 6 months, beginning 6 days after the first injection of the vaccine and on date of a revaccination during such period of 6 months.

Smallpox: 3 years, beginning 8 days after successful primary vaccination and immediately on revaccination.

Yellow fever: 10 years beginning 10 days after date of original vaccination or from date of a revaccination within such period of 10 years.

[31 F.R. 12236, Sept. 16, 1966, as amended at 32 F.R. 3216, Feb. 24, 1967]

§ 61.124 Compliance with conditions of

surveillance.

(a) Every person who is placed under surveillance in accordance with the provisions of this subpart shall, during the period of surveillance:

(1) Give such information relative to his health and his intended destination and report to designated physicians or medical officers at such times for such medical examinations as may be required; and

(2) Upon arrival at any address other than that stated as his intended destination when placed under surveillance, report his address to the quarantine officer in charge of the port or place of his entry.

(b) A person under surveillance shall, prior to his departure from the Canal Zone, inform the quarantine officer in charge at the port or place of his entry, or departure, and such officer shall immediately notify the health authority of the place to which the person is proceeding.

§ 61.125 Departing persons, things, vessels, or aircraft.

(a) If the Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine and Quarantine or the quarantine officer in charge has reason to believe that a person proposing to depart from the Canal Zone by any means is infected with or has been exposed to infection by a quarantinable disease, he shall so advise the person and notify the local health authorities and the master or commander or person in charge of the vessel, aircraft or other conveyance on which the person proposes to depart.

(b) If the quarantine officer has reason to believe that a departing vessel, aircraft or land conveyance has or may have on board possible agents of infection or vectors of a quarantinable disease, he shall notify the master, commander, or person in charge and offer to have performed such disinsecting, disinfection, or other measures as are necessary. He shall, if he considers that a risk of infection exists on board at the time of departure, notify all persons proposing to embark upon such ship, aircraft or conveyance and the health authorities at the next port of call or destination of the conditions aboard such vessel, aircraft or conveyance.

§ 61.126 Sanitary measures previously applied.

Any sanitary measure, other than medical examination, which has been applied prior to the arrival of a vessel or aircraft with respect to the quarantinable diseases shall not be repeated unless:

(a) After the departure of a vessel or aircraft from the port or airport where the measures were applied there is or has been on board an infected person or suspect or there has occurred any other incident of epidemiological significance either in that port or airport or on board the vessel or aircraft which, in the judgment of the quarantine officer in charge, requires further application of any such measure; or

(b) The quarantine officer in charge has ascertained on the basis of definite

(a) The quarantine officer in charge shall, upon request, issue free of charge to a carrier a certificate specifying the sanitary measures applied to a vessel, an aircraft or a land conveyance, the parts thereof treated, the methods employed, and the reasons why the measures were applied. In the case of an aircraft this information shall on request be entered instead in the general declaration.

(b) The quarantine officer in charge shall, upon request, issue free of charge:

(1) To any traveler a certificate specifying the date of his arrival or departure and the sanitary measures applied to him and his baggage; and

(2) To the consignor, the consignee, or the carrier, or their respective agents, a certificate specifying the sanitary meassures applied to any goods.

§ 61.128 Authorized vaccinating centers; authenticating stamps or seals. (a) Handling, storage and administration of yellow fever vaccine shall comply with instructions of the World Health

Organization.

(b) International certificates of vaccination against yellow fever, shall be authenticated by the official, approved stamp or seal of one of the authorized yellow fever vaccinating centers of the Canal Zone.

(c) International certificates of vaccination against smallpox or cholera performed in the Canal Zone shall be authenticated by:

(1) The stamp approved under paragraph (b) of this section; or

(2) The seal of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Quarantine; or

(3) The stamp or seal of a hospital or clinic under the direction of the Health Bureau.

§ 61.129 Listing of infected and recep

tive areas.

The Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine and Quarantine, shall maintain an accurate listing of:

(a) Ports and other areas infected with quarantinable or other communicable diseases;

(b) Yellow fever receptive areas; and (c) Ports and other areas having an Aedes aegypti Index of 1.0 and above.

§ 61.130

Administration of quarantine laws, rules and regulations.

The Health Bureau, under the supervision of the Health Director, through the Division of Preventive Medicine and Quarantine, with respect to all quarantine matters other than animal quarantine, and through the Division of Veterinary Medicine with respect to animal quarantine, under the immediate supervision and direction of the Chiefs of those divisions, is charged with the administration of all laws, rules and regulations governing maritime and aircraft quarantine in the Canal Zone.

§ 61.131 Penalties for violation.

As provided by 2 C.Z.C. 912, 76A Stat. 36, whoever violates a quarantine rule contained in this subpart, or a provision of a regulation prescribed thereunder shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned in jail not more than 90 days, or both; and each day the violation continues constitutes a separate offense. MEASURES AT FOREIGN PORTS

§ 61.142

Measures prescribed by local health authority; vessels and aircraft. A vessel or aircraft at any foreign port or airport clearing or departing for a port of the Canal Zone shall comply with sanitary measures prescribed by the health authority for such foreign port or airport in accordance with responsibility imposed by the International Sanitary Regulations to prevent the departure of infected persons or the introduction on board the vessel or aircraft of possible agents of infection or vectors of a quarantinable disease. MEASURES IN TRANSIT

§ 61.151 Vessels and aircraft; general provisions.

The measures described in §§ 61.152 through 61.157 must be taken in transit with respect to vessels and aircraft destined for ports of the Canal Zone. § 61.152 Vessels; sanitary inspection and corrective measures.

The master or a designated officer shall make a daily sanitary inspection of all compartments of the vessel normally ac

cessible to passengers or crew. Immediate corrective measures shall be taken if evidence of vermin, rodents or unsanitary conditions is found.

§ 61.153 Vessels; entries in the official record.

A record of the conditions found and the corrective measures taken shall be entered in an official record.

§ 61.154 Vessels and aircraft; radio report of disease aboard.

(a) The master of the vessel shall report promptly by radio to the quarantine officer in charge at the port of entry in the Canal Zone, and wherever practicable not less than four hours before the expected arrival of the ship, the occurrence or suspected occurrence of any of the following communicable diseases: Antrax, chancroid, chickenpox, cholera, dengue, diphtheria, favus, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, hemolytic streptococcal infections, impetigo contagiosa, infectious encephalitis, leprosy, lymphogranuloma venereum, measles, meningococcus meningitis, plague, poliomyelitis, psittacosis, relapsing fever, ringworm of the scalp, smallpox, syphilis, trachoma, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus, yellow fever, or other diseases characterized by fever or skin rash.

(b) The commander of an aircraft destined for a port of the Canal Zone shall report promptly by radio to the quarantine officer in charge at intended place of landing in the Canal Zone the occurrence or suspected occurrence on board of any of the communicable diseases listed or described in paragraph (a) of this section.

§ 61.155 Vessels; yellow fever.

(a) The following vessels shall be disinsected prior to their arrival in Canal Zone waters and the master of the vessel shall certify to this effect on the maritime quarantine declaration presented to the quarantine officer upon arrival:

(1) An infected or suspected vessel, as defined in § 61.230; or

(2) A vessel from an infected local area; or,

(3) A vessel that has left a port where the Aedes aegypti Index is reported as 1.0 or higher.

(b) The insecticide used and method of disinsecting shall be those prescribed by the Health Director.

(c) If the disinsecting required under paragraph (a) of this section is not car