STANGE, C. H., "Hog Cholera Control," Journal of the Am. Vet Med. Assn., November, 1915, p. 156. TORRANCE, FREDERICK, "Garbage Feeding in Relation to the Control of Hog Cholera," Journal of the Am. Vet. Med. Assn., October, 1921, p. 22. Regulations Governing the Preparation, Sale, Barter, Exchange, Shipment, and Importation of Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products Intended for Regulation 4. Suspension or revocation of licenses Regulation 5. Notice to licensees and permittees.. Regulation 20. Bacterins, vaccines, toxins, etc... 295 Regulation 21. Admission of viruses, serums, tox ins, and analogous products 296 The virus-serum-toxin law .. 296 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., August 1, 1919. Under authority of the act of Congress approved March 4, 1913, entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914" (37 Stat., 832), the following regulations are hereby issued for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of said act governing the preparation, sale, barter, exchange, shipment, and importation of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals. These regulations, which for the purpose of identification are designated as B. A. I. Order 265, shall become and be effective on and after September 1, 1919, except that stocks of approved labels on hand may be used until December 31, 1920. D. F. HOUSTON, Secretary of Agriculture. REGULATION 1.-DEFINITIONS SECTION 1. Paragraph 1. For the purpose of these regulations the following words, phrases, names, and terms shall be construed respectively to mean: Paragraph 2. The virus-serum-toxin act of 1913: "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agri culture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914," approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., 832). Paragraph 3. Viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products or veterinary biologies: All viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, such as antitoxins, vaccines, tuberculins, malleins, microörganisms, killed microorganisms, and products of microorganisms which are intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals. Paragraph 4. The department: The United States Department of Agriculture. Paragraph 5. The bureau: The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. Paragraph 6. Bureau employee: Any officer, agent, or other individual employed in the Bureau of Animal Industry, who is authorized by the chief of the bureau to do any work or perform any duty in connection with the execution of the provisions of the virus-serum-toxin act of 1913. Paragraph 7. Veterinary inspector: A veterinary inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Paragraph 8. Licensed establishment: Any establishment owned or operated by a person, firm, or corporation holding an unexpired, unsuspended, and unrevoked license issued by the Secretary of Agriculture for the preparation of any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product. Paragraph 9. Official station: One or more licensed establishments included under a single supervision. Paragraph 10. Inspector in charge: An inspector assigned to supervise and perform official work at an official station and who reports directly to the chief of the bureau. Paragraph 11. Person: Natural persons, individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies, and associations and every agent, officer, or employee thereof. This term shall import both the plural and the singular, as the case may be. Paragraph 12. Hog-cholera virus: The clear serum, plasma, or defibrinated blood, derived from hogs sick of hog cholera and free from other communicable disease or diseases. Paragraph 13. Hyperimmunizing virus: Hog-cholera virus prepared for hyperimmunizing hogs which are immune to the disease hog cholera. Paragraph 14. Simultaneous virus: Hog-cholera virus prepared for inoculating hogs which are to be injected simultaneously with anti-hog-cholera serum for the immunization of those animals against the disease hog cholera. Paragraph 15. Anti-hog-cholera serum: The clear serum, plasma, or defibrinated blood, or derivatives thereof, containing the protective principles derived from immune hogs which have been hyper-immunized by an intravenous injection of at least 5 cubic centimeters, per pound body weight, of the virus of hog cholera. Paragraph 16. Immediate or true container: The unit, bottle, vial, ampule, tube, or other receptacle or container in which any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product is customarily sold or distributed. Paragraph 17. Serial number: The number given each batch of virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product to identify the said virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product with the records of preparation thereof. Paragraph 18. Return date: The date placed upon trade labels affixed to or used in connection with immediate or true containers of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products by producers to indicate the limit of time during which the said products may be expected to retain their full strength or potency. Paragraph 19. U. S. Released: That veterinary biologics so marked have been prepared and tested in ac |