[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 9CFR309.15]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 309_ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 309.15  Vesicular diseases.



    (a) Immediate notification shall be given by the inspector to the 

local, State, and Federal livestock sanitary officials having 

jurisdiction when any livestock is found to be affected with a vesicular 

disease.

    (b) No livestock under quarantine by State or Federal livestock 

sanitary officials on account of a vesicular disease will be given ante-

mortem inspection. If no quarantine is invoked, or if quarantine is 

invoked and later removed, upon ante-mortem inspection, any animal found 

to be affected with vesicular exanthema or vesicular stomatitis in the 

acute stages, as evidenced by acute and active lesions or an elevated 

temperature, shall be identified as U.S. Condemned and disposed of in 

accordance with Sec. 309.13.