[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR311.17]

[Page 137]
 
                  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.