[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR312.8]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 312_OFFICIAL MARKS, DEVICES AND CERTIFICATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 312.8  Official export inspection marks, devices, and certificates.

    (a) The official export meat inspection mark required by part 322 of 
this subchapter shall be in the following form as hereinafter specified: 
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    \1\ The number ``529893'' is given as an example only. The number of 
the offical export certificate will be shown in lieu thereof.
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Any rubber stamp approved by the Administrator, in the manner provided 
for in part 317 of this subchapter, and bearing the official mark 
prescribed in this paragraph shall be an official device for the 
purposes of the Act.
    (b) The official export certificate required by part 322 of this 
subchapter is a paper certificate form for signature by a Program 
employee, bearing a letterhead and the seal of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, with a certification that meat or meat food 
products described on the form is from animals that received ante-mortem 
and post-mortem inspection and were found sound and healthy and that it 
has been inspected and passed as provided by law and the regulations of 
the Department of Agriculture and is sound and wholesome. The 
certificate also bears a serial number such as ``No. 184432.''

[35 FR 15573, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 42 FR 11825, Mar. 1, 1977; 47 
FR 29823, July 9, 1982]

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