[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: 9CFR310.10]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 310_POST-MORTEM INSPECTION--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 310.10  Carcasses with skin or hide on; cleaning before evisceration; 

removal of larvae of Hypodermae, external parasites and other pathological 

skin conditions.



    When a carcass is to be dressed with the skin or hide left on, the 

skin or hide shall be thoroughly washed and cleaned before any incision 

is made for the purpose of removing any part thereof or evisceration, 

except that where calves are slaughtered by the kosher method, the heads 

shall be removed from the carcasses, before washing of the carcasses. 

The skin shall be removed at the time of post-mortem inspection from any 

calf carcass infested with the larvae of the ``oxwarble'' fly (Hypoderma 

lineata and Hypoderma bovis), or external parasites, or affected with 

other pathological skin conditions.



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