[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: 9CFR325.7]

[Page 321-322]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 325--TRANSPORTATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 325.7  Shipment of products requiring special supervision between official establishments under official seal; certificate.

    (a) Products passed for cooking, pork that has been refrigerated to 
destroy

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trichinae, and beef that is to be refrigerated to destroy cysticerci, 
may be shipped loose from one official establishment to any other 
official establishment, for further handling in accordance with part 318 
of this subchapter, in railroad cars, trucks, or other means of 
conveyance sealed with the official seal of the Department as prescribed 
in Sec. 325.16: Provided, That in the case of railroad cars, the 
receiving establishment has railroad facilities for unloading the 
products directly into the establishment.
    (b) When such restricted product is shipped from one official 
establishment to another official establishment in the same railroad car 
or other means of conveyance with other product, such restricted product 
shall be packed in individual closed containers as hereinafter provided. 
Containers shall be sealed by firmly applying a pressure sensitive tape 
around each container in two directions and stamping the intersection of 
the tape with the marking device described in Sec. 312.2(a) of this 
subchapter for use on burlap, muslin, etc. (2\1/2\-inch rubber brand). 
Such tape must possess the adhesive property to actually remove a 
portion of the container surface when the tape is removed. 
Alternatively, an inelastic, nonmetallic strap which will retain a 
legible imprint of the marking device (2\1/2\-inch rubber brand) may be 
used. The imprint of the marking device shall be placed partially on the 
strap and partially on the container. Such restricted product shall be 
marked ``U.S. passed for cooking'' or ``pork product ----  deg.F.----
days refrigeration'' or ``beef passed for refrigeration,'' as the case 
may be. In addition, a ``U.S. retained'' tag shall be securely affixed 
to each container of product passed for cooking and of beef passed for 
refrigeration. The means of conveyance shall not be sealed unless at 
least 25 percent of the other product in the vehicle is unmarked. For 
each consignment there shall be promptly issued and forwarded by the 
inspector to the inspector in charge at destination, a report on the 
form entitled ``Notice of Unmarked Meats Shipped in Sealed Cars,'' 
appropriately modified to show the character of the containers, and that 
the contents are restricted. A duplicate copy shall be retained in the 
program files.
    (c) When products are offered for transportation under this section, 
the initial carrier shall require and the shipper shall make in 
duplicate and deliver to the carrier one copy of a certificate in the 
form set out in Sec. 325.5(b). Certificates in this form or copies 
thereof need not be forwarded to any official or office of the 
Department, but the original of the certificate shall be retained by the 
carrier and a copy shall be retained by the shipper in accordance with 
part 320 of this subchapter. If the shipper is also the carrier, he 
shall nevertheless execute and retain the certificate in accordance with 
part 320 of this subchapter.

[35 FR 15605, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 39 FR 20187, June 7, 1974]