[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR309.10]

[Page 104]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 309--ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 309.10  Onset of parturition.

    Any livestock showing signs of the onset of parturition shall be 
withheld from slaughter until after parturition and passage of the 
placenta. Slaughter or other disposition may then be permitted if the 
animal is otherwise acceptable.