C-61.1, r. 33.1 - Regulation respecting the sale, importation, possession and disposal of an animal or wildlife by-product

Section 3.8 Disposition versions

Not in force

In force: 2025-09-01

3.8. Only a dismembering plant operated in accordance with the Regulation respecting food (chapter P-29, r. 1) may proceed to the reclamation of a dead cervid.

A dismembering plant may only use a dead cervid to make rendered fat containing not more than 0.15% of insoluble impurities or a product derived from it, subject to the exceptions provided for in the second paragraph of section 3.1, in the following cases:

(1)  where the cervid was in the possession of a person pursuant to the third paragraph of section 3.1;

(2)  where possession of the cervid is not permitted under the first paragraph of section 3.3 or where it was in the possession of a person pursuant to the second paragraph of section 3.3;

(3)  where the cervid, except a caribou, having lived in the wild died in a zone A or B;

(4)  where before its death, the caribou had lived in the wild in one of the zones described in the first paragraph of section 3.7 and a case of chronic wasting disease of cervids was detected in that zone in the 6 years before the caribou’s death.

In the cases referred to in the second paragraph, the salvager referred to in the Regulation respecting food may salvage and transport the cervid only for the purpose of such a reclamation at the dismembering plant.

O.C. 1341-2024, s. 4.