[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2, Parts 200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 9CFR311.3]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 311--DISPOSAL OF DISEASED OR OTHERWISE ADULTERATED CARCASSES AND PARTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 311.3  Hog cholera.

    (a) The carcasses of all hogs affected with hog cholera shall be 
condemned.
    (b) Inconclusive but suspicious symptoms of hog cholera observed 
during the ante-mortem inspection of a U.S. suspect shall be duly 
considered in connection with post-mortem findings and when the carcass 
of such a suspect shows lesions in the kidneys and the lymph nodes which 
resemble lesions of hog cholera, they shall be regarded as those of hog 
cholera and the carcass shall be condemned.
    (c) When lesions resembling those of hog cholera occur in kidneys 
and lymph nodes of carcasses of hogs which appeared normal on ante-
mortem inspection, further inspection of such carcasses shall be made 
for corroborative lesions. If on such further inspection, characteristic 
lesions of hog cholera are found in some organ or tissue in addition to 
those in the kidneys or in the lymph nodes or in both, then all lesions 
shall be regarded as those of hog cholera and the carcass shall be 
condemned. Immediate notification shall be given by the inspector to the 
official in the Veterinary Services unit of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service who has responsibility for control of swine diseases 
in the State where the swine are located.

[35 FR 15569, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 40 FR 27225, June 27, 1975]