[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: 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]