[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: 9CFR311.16]

[Page 129]
 
                  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. 311.16  Carcasses so infected that consumption of the meat may cause food poisoning.

    (a) All carcasses of animals so infected that consumption of the 
products thereof may give rise to food poisoning shall be condemned. 
This includes all carcasses showing signs of:
    (1) Acute inflammation of the lungs, pleura, pericardium, 
peritoneum, or meninges.
    (2) Septicemia or pyemia, whether puerperal, traumatic, or without 
any evident cause.
    (3) Gangrenous or severe hemorrhagic enteritis or gastritis.
    (4) Acute diffuse metritis or mammitis.
    (5) Phlebitis of the umbilical veins.
    (6) Septic or purulent traumatic pericarditis.
    (7) Any acute inflammation, abscess, or suppurating sore, if 
associated with acute nephritis, fatty and degenerated liver, swollen 
soft spleen, marked pulmonary hyperemia, general swelling of lymph 
nodes, diffuse redness of the skin, cachexia, icteric discoloration of 
the carcass or similar condition, either singly or in combination.
    (8) Salmonellosis.
    (b) Implements contaminated by contact with carcasses affected with 
any of the disease conditions mentioned in this section shall be 
thoroughly cleaned and sanitized as prescribed in part 308 of this 
subchapter. The equipment used in the dressing of such carcasses, such 
as viscera trucks or inspection tables, shall be sanitized with hot 
water having a minimum temperature of 180  deg.F. Carcasses or parts of 
carcasses contaminated by contact with such diseased carcasses shall be 
condemned unless all contaminated tissues are removed within 2 hours.