Sec. 6301. Definitions
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In this title: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. The term commercial trade in live wildlife — means commercial trade in live wildlife for human consumption as food or medicine, whether the animals originated in the wild or in a captive environment; and does not include— fish; invertebrates; amphibians and reptiles; and the meat of ruminant game species— traded in markets in countries with effective implementation and enforcement of scientifically based, nationally implemented policies and legislation for processing, trans-port, trade, and marketing; and sold after being slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
The term One Health means a collaborative, multi-sectoral, and transdisciplinary approach working at the local, regional, national, and global levels with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes that recognizes the interconnection between— people, animals, both wild and domestic, and plants; and the environment shared by such people, animals, and plants. The term wildlife market — means a commercial market or subsection of a commercial market— where live mammalian or avian wildlife is held, slaughtered, or sold for human consumption as food or medicine whether the animals originated in the wild or in a captive environment; and that delivers a product in communities where alternative nutritional or protein sources are readily available and affordable; and does not include— markets in areas where no other practical alternative sources of protein or meat exists, such as wildlife markets in rural areas on which indigenous people and rural local communities rely to feed them-selves and their families; and processors of dead wild game and fish.