[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: 9CFR381.72]

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                  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 Sec. Sec. 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 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]