[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: 9CFR381.72]

[Page 445-446]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 381--POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart J--Ante Mortem Inspection
 
Sec. 381.72  Segregation of suspects on ante mortem inspection.

    (a) All birds, except ratites, that on ante mortem inspection do not 
plainly show, but are suspected of being affected with, any disease or 
condition that under Secs. 381.80 to 381.93 of this Part may cause 
condemnation in whole or in part on post mortem inspection, shall be 
segregated from the other poultry and held for separate slaughter, 
evisceration, and post mortem inspection. The inspector shall be 
notified when such segregated lots are presented for post mortem 
inspection, and inspection of such birds shall be conducted separately. 
Such procedure for the correlation of ante mortem and post mortem 
findings by the inspector, as may be prescribed or approved by the 
Administrator, shall be carried out.
    (b) All ratites showing symptoms of disease will be segregated, 
individually tagged as ``U.S. Suspects'' by establishment personnel 
under FSIS supervision with a serially numbered metal or plastic leg 
band or tag bearing the term ``U.S. Suspect,'' and held for further 
examination by an FSIS veterinarian. Depending upon the findings of the 
veterinarian's examination, these birds

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will either be passed for regular slaughter, slaughtered as suspects, 
withheld from slaughter, or condemned on ante mortem. Those ratites 
affected with conditions that would be readily detected on post mortem 
inspection need not be individually tagged on ante mortem inspection 
with the ``U.S. Suspect'' tag provided that such ratites are segregated 
and otherwise handled as ``U.S. Suspects.'' All ratites identified as 
``U.S. Condemned'' shall be tagged by establishment personnel, under 
FSIS supervision, with a serially numbered metal or plastic leg band or 
tag bearing the term ``U.S. Condemned.''

[66 FR 22906, May 7, 2001]