[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2, Parts 200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR354.63]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 354--VOLUNTARY INSPECTION OF RABBITS AND EDIBLE PRODUCTS THEREOF--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 354.63  Marking inspected products.

    (a) Wording and form of inspection mark. Except as otherwise 
authorized, the inspection mark permitted to be used with respect to 
inspected and certified edible products shall include wording as 
follows: ``Inspected for Wholesomeness by U.S. Department of 
Agriculture.'' This wording shall be contained within a circle in the 
form and arrangement shown in Sec. 354.65. The appropriate plant number 
of the official plant shall be included in the circle unless it appears 
elsewhere on the packaging material. The Administrator may approve the 
use of abbreviations of such inspection mark, and such approved 
abbreviations shall have the same force and effect as the inspection 
mark. The inspection mark or approved abbreviation thereof, as the case 
may be, may be applied to the inspected and certified edible product or 
to the packaging material of such product. When the inspection mark, or 
the approved abbreviation thereof, is used on packaging material, it 
shall be printed on such material or on a label to be affixed to the 
packaging material and the name of the packer or distributor of such 
product shall be printed on the packaging material or label, as the case 
may be, except that on shipping containers and containers for 
institutional packs, the inspection marks may be stenciled on the 
container and, when the inspection mark is so stenciled, the name and 
address of the packer or distributor may be applied by the use of a 
stencil or a rubber stamp. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the name and 
address of the packer or distributor, if appropriately shown elsewhere 
on the packaging material, may be omitted from insert labels which bear 
an official identification if the applicable plant number is shown.
    (b) Wording on labels. Each trade label to be approved for use 
pursuant to Secs. 354.60 to 354.64 with respect to any inspected and 
certified edible product shall bear the true name of the edible product, 
the name and address of the packer or distributor thereof, and in 
prominent letters and figures of uniform size, the inspection mark, as 
aforesaid, and the label shall also bear, in such manner as may be 
prescribed or approved by the Administrator, the plant number, if any, 
of the official plant in which such product was inspected and certified. 
The class of the rabbits shall be shown on the label. The appropriate 
designation ``young'', ``mature'', or ``old'' may be used as a prefix to 
the word ``rabbit'' in lieu of the class name.
    (c) Labels in foreign languages. Any trade label to be affixed to a 
container of any edible products for foreign commerce may be printed in 
a foreign language. However, the inspection mark shall appear on the 
label in English, but, in addition, may be literally translated into 
such foreign language. Each such trade label which is to be printed in a 
foreign language must be approved pursuant to Secs. 354.60 to 354.64.
    (d) Unauthorized use or disposition of approved labels. (1) Labels 
approved for use pursuant to Secs. 354.60 to 354.64 shall be used only 
for the purpose for which approved and shall not otherwise be disposed 
of from the plant for which approved except with written approval of the 
Administrator. Any unauthorized use or disposition of approved labels or 
labels bearing official identification may result in cancellation of the 
approval and denial of the use of labels bearing official identification 
or denial of the benefits of the Act pursuant to the provisions of 
Sec. 354.60.
    (2) The use of simulations or imitations of any official 
identification by any person is prohibited.
    (e) Rescindment of approved labels. Once a year, or more often if 
requested,

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each applicant shall submit to the Administrator a list in triplicate of 
approved labels that have become obsolete, accompanied with a statement 
that such approvals are no longer desired. The approvals shall be 
identified by the date of approval and the name of product or other 
designation showing the class of material.