carcass of an ungulatemeans the whole body of a slaughtered or killed ungulate after:
casingsmeans the bladders and intestines that after cleaning have been processed by tissue scraping, defatting and washing and have been treated with salt or dried;
colostrummeans the fluid secreted by the mammary glands of kept animals up to five days post parturition that is rich in antibodies and minerals, and precedes the production of raw milk.
colostrum-based productsmeans processed products resulting from the processing of colostrum or from the further processing of such processed products;
day-old chicksmeans poultry less than 72 hours old;
embryomeans the initial stage of development of an animal while it is capable of being transferred to a recipient dam;
fresh meatmeans meat, minced meat and meat preparations, including vacuum-wrapped or wrapped in a controlled atmosphere, which has not undergone any process other than chilling, freezing or quick-freezing;
infected zonemeans a zone in which restrictions on the movements of kept and wild animals or products and other disease control and biosecurity measures may be applied with the view to preventing the spread of a category A disease in the event of official confirmation of the disease in wild animals.
means of transportmeans road or rail vehicle, vessels and aircrafts;
meat productsmeans processed products, including treated stomachs, bladders, intestines, rendered fats, meat extracts and blood products, resulting from the processing of meat or from the further processing of such processed products, so that the cut surface shows that the product no longer has the characteristics of fresh meat;
offalmeans fresh meat other than that of the carcass as defined in (7), even if it remains naturally connected to the carcass;
oocytesmeans the haploid stages of the ootidogenesis including secondary oocytes and ova;
safe commoditymeans a commodity that can be moved without the need for risk mitigation measures specifically directed against a particular listed disease regardless of the status of the Member State or zone of origin for that disease;
semenmeans the ejaculate of an animal or animals, either in the unaltered state or prepared or diluted;
supply chainmeans an integrated production chain of a common health status as regards listed diseases consisting of a collaborative network of specialised establishments approved by the competent authority for the purpose of Article 45, between which animals are moved to complete the production cycle;