[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: 9CFR311.19]

[Page 130]
 
                  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. 311.19  Icterus.

    Carcasses showing any degree of icterus shall be condemned. Yellow 
fat conditions caused by nutritional factors or characteristic of 
certain breeds of livestock and yellow fat sometimes seen in sheep shall 
not be confused with icterus. Such carcasses should be passed for human 
food, if otherwise normal.