[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: 9CFR316.3]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 316--MARKING PRODUCTS AND THEIR CONTAINERS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 316.3  Use of official marks prohibited except under supervision of Program employee; removal of official marks, when required.

    (a) No person shall affix or place, or cause to be affixed or 
placed, the official inspection legend or any other official mark, or 
any abbreviation or simulation of any official mark, to or on any 
product, or container thereof, except under the supervision of a Program 
employee, or as authorized by part 317 of this subchapter in connection 
with the manufacture of containers.
    (b) No person shall fill, or cause to be filled, in whole or in 
part, with any product, any container bearing or intended to bear any 
official mark, or any abbreviation or simulation of any official mark, 
except under the supervision of a Program employee.
    (c) Product bearing any official mark shall not be canned, cooked, 
cured, smoked, salted, packed, rendered, or otherwise prepared by any 
person for commercial purposes unless:
    (1) Such preparation is performed at an official establishment; or
    (2) Such preparation is conducted under State or other governmental 
inspection and the prepared product is marked to show that fact; or
    (3) The official marks are removed, defaced, or otherwise destroyed 
before or during such preparation; or
    (4) The preparation of the product consists solely of cutting up 
operations at any establishment exempted from inspection under paragraph 
301(c)(2) of the Act or equal provisions of a law of a State or 
organized Territory or at any establishment in an unorganized Territory 
exempted under paragraph 23(b) of the Act.

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