[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: 9CFR316.3]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 316_MARKING PRODUCTS AND THEIR CONTAINERS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 316.3  Use of official marks prohibited except under supervision of Program employee; removal of official marks, when required.



    (a) No person shall affix or place, or cause to be affixed or 

placed, the official inspection legend or any other official mark, or 

any abbreviation or simulation of any official mark, to or on any 

product, or container thereof, except under the supervision of a Program 

employee, or as authorized by part 317 of this subchapter in connection 

with the manufacture of containers.

    (b) No person shall fill, or cause to be filled, in whole or in 

part, with any product, any container bearing or intended to bear any 

official mark, or any abbreviation or simulation of any official mark, 

except under the supervision of a Program employee.

    (c) Product bearing any official mark shall not be canned, cooked, 

cured, smoked, salted, packed, rendered, or otherwise prepared by any 

person for commercial purposes unless:

    (1) Such preparation is performed at an official establishment; or

    (2) Such preparation is conducted under State or other governmental 

inspection and the prepared product is marked to show that fact; or

    (3) The official marks are removed, defaced, or otherwise destroyed 

before or during such preparation; or

    (4) The preparation of the product consists solely of cutting up 

operations at any establishment exempted from



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inspection under paragraph 301(c)(2) of the Act or equal provisions of a 

law of a State or organized Territory or at any establishment in an 

unorganized Territory exempted under paragraph 23(b) of the Act.