[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: 9CFR316.9]



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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. 316.9  Products to be marked with official marks.



    (a) Each carcass which has been inspected and passed in an official 

establishment shall be marked at the time of inspection with the 

official inspection legend containing the number of the official 

establishment.

    (b) Except as provided otherwise in Sec. 316.8, each primal part of 

a carcass and each liver, beef tongue, and beef heart which has been 

inspected and passed shall be marked with the official inspection legend 

containing the number of the official establishment before it leaves the 

establishment in which it is first inspected and passed, and each such 

inspected and passed product shall be marked with the official 

inspection legend containing the number of the official establishment 

where it was last prepared. Additional official marks of inspection may 

be applied to products as desired to meet local conditions. Primal parts 

are the wholesale cuts of carcasses as customarily distributed to 

retailers. The round, flank, loin, rib, plate, brisket, chuck, and shank 

are primal parts of beef carcasses. Veal, mutton, and goat primal parts 

are the leg; flank, loin, rack, breast, and shoulder. The ham, belly, 

loin, shoulder, and jowl are pork primal parts. Equine primal parts are 

the round, flank, loin, rib, plate, brisket, chuck, and shank.

    (c) Beef livers shall be marked with the official inspection legend 

containing the number of the official establishment, at which the cattle 

involved were slaughtered, on the convex surface of the thickest portion 

of the organ.

    (d) Inspected and passed parts of carcasses which are not marked 

with the official inspection legend under this section shall not enter 

any official establishment or be sold, transported, or offered for sale 

or transportation, in commerce, except as provided in Sec. 316.8.



[35 FR 15577, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 36 FR 23720, Dec. 14, 1971]