CFR > Title 40 - Protection of Environment > CHAPTER I—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY > SUBCHAPTER N—EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS (Parts 400–471) > PART 439—PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY > SUBPART B—Extraction Products (§439.20 to §439.27) > 439.21—Special definitions.

439.21—Special definitions.

For the purpose of this subpart:
(a) Extraction means process operations that derive pharmaceutically active ingredients from natural sources such as plant roots and leaves, animal glands, and parasitic fungi by chemical and physical extraction.
(b) Product means any substance manufactured by an extraction process, including blood fractions, vaccines, serums, animal bile derivatives, endocrine products and medicinal products such as alkaloids that are isolated from botanical drugs and herbs.

Code of Federal Regulations

[68 FR 12272, Mar. 13, 2003]
For the purpose of this subpart:
(a) Extraction means process operations that derive pharmaceutically active ingredients from natural sources such as plant roots and leaves, animal glands, and parasitic fungi by chemical and physical extraction.
(b) Product means any substance manufactured by an extraction process, including blood fractions, vaccines, serums, animal bile derivatives, endocrine products and medicinal products such as alkaloids that are isolated from botanical drugs and herbs.

Code of Federal Regulations

[68 FR 12272, Mar. 13, 2003]