[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: 9CFR314.10]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 314_HANDLING AND DISPOSAL OF CONDEMNED OR OTHER INEDIBLE

PRODUCTS AT OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 314.10  Livers condemned because of parasitic infestation and for other causes; conditions for disposal for purposes other than human food.



    (a) Livers condemned on account of hydatid cysts shall be disposed 

of by tanking pursuant to the provisions of Sec. 314.1 of this 

subchapter if condemned at official establishments having facilities for 

tanking; otherwise they shall be destroyed pursuant to the provisions of 

Sec. 314.3 of this subchapter.

    (b) Livers condemned because of parasites other than hydatid cysts; 

and livers condemned because of telangiectasis, angioma, ``sawdust'' 

condition, cirrhosis, carotenosis, or other nonmalignant change, benign 

abscesses, or contamination, when these conditions are not associated 

with infectious diseases in the carcasses, may be shipped from an 

official establishment only for purposes other than human food, and only 

if all tissue affected with abscesses is removed and destroyed within 

the establishment, and all livers are processed and denatured, with any 

agent prescribed in Sec. 325.13(a)(1) or (2) or (5), and in accordance 

with Sec. 325.13(a)(6) of this subchapter. This provision for movement 

from an official establishment is made solely under the Federal Meat 

Inspection Act and is not intended to relieve or modify any other 

applicable requirements under any other law regarding



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the movement of such articles, for purposes other than use as human 

food.

    (c) Livers condemned because of conditions described in paragraph 

(b) of this section shall be in containers plainly marked ``inedible''.



[41 FR 23701, June 11, 1976]