[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: 9CFR316.9]

[Page 150]
 
                  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. 316.9  Products to be marked with official marks.

    (a) Each carcass which has been inspected and passed in an official 
establishment shall be marked at the time of inspection with the 
official inspection legend containing the number of the official 
establishment.
    (b) Except as provided otherwise in Sec. 316.8, each primal part of 
a carcass and each liver, beef tongue, and beef heart which has been 
inspected and passed shall be marked with the official inspection legend 
containing the number of the official establishment before it leaves the 
establishment in which it is first inspected and passed, and each such 
inspected and passed product shall be marked with the official 
inspection legend containing the number of the official establishment 
where it was last prepared. Additional official marks of inspection may 
be applied to products as desired to meet local conditions. Primal parts 
are the wholesale cuts of carcasses as customarily distributed to 
retailers. The round, flank, loin, rib, plate, brisket, chuck, and shank 
are primal parts of beef carcasses. Veal, mutton, and goat primal parts 
are the leg; flank, loin, rack, breast, and shoulder. The ham, belly, 
loin, shoulder, and jowl are pork primal parts. Equine primal parts are 
the round, flank, loin, rib, plate, brisket, chuck, and shank.
    (c) Beef livers shall be marked with the official inspection legend 
containing the number of the official establishment, at which the cattle 
involved were slaughtered, on the convex surface of the thickest portion 
of the organ.
    (d) Inspected and passed parts of carcasses which are not marked 
with the official inspection legend under this section shall not enter 
any official establishment or be sold, transported, or offered for sale 
or transportation, in commerce, except as provided in Sec. 316.8.

[35 FR 15577, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 36 FR 23720, Dec. 14, 1971]