[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

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

[CITE: 9CFR311.17]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 311_DISPOSAL OF DISEASED OR OTHERWISE ADULTERATED CARCASSES

AND PARTS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 311.17  Necrobacillosis, pyemia, and septicemia.



    From the standpoint of meat inspection, necrobacillosis may be 

regarded as a local infection at the beginning, and carcasses in which 

the lesions are localized may be passed for human food if in a good 

state of nutrition, after those portions affected with necrotic lesions 

are removed and condemned. However, when emaciation, cloudy swelling of 

the parenchymatous tissue of organs or enlargement of the lymph nodes is 

associated with the infection, it is evident that the disease has 

progressed beyond the condition of localization to a state of toxemia, 

and the entire carcass shall therefore be condemned as both unwholesome 

and noxious. Pyemia or septicemia may intervene as a complication of the 

local necrosis, and when present the carcass shall be condemned in 

accordance with Sec. 311.16.