[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: 9CFR311.16]



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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. 311.16  Carcasses so infected that consumption of the meat may cause food poisoning.



    (a) All carcasses of animals so infected that consumption of the 

products thereof may give rise to food poisoning shall be condemned. 

This includes all carcasses showing signs of:

    (1) Acute inflammation of the lungs, pleura, pericardium, 

peritoneum, or meninges.

    (2) Septicemia or pyemia, whether puerperal, traumatic, or without 

any evident cause.

    (3) Gangrenous or severe hemorrhagic enteritis or gastritis.

    (4) Acute diffuse metritis or mammitis.

    (5) Phlebitis of the umbilical veins.

    (6) Septic or purulent traumatic pericarditis.

    (7) Any acute inflammation, abscess, or suppurating sore, if 

associated with acute nephritis, fatty and degenerated liver, swollen 

soft spleen, marked pulmonary hyperemia, general swelling of lymph 

nodes, diffuse redness of the skin, cachexia, icteric discoloration of 

the carcass or similar condition, either singly or in combination.

    (8) Salmonellosis.

    (b) Implements contaminated by contact with carcasses affected with 

any of the disease conditions mentioned in this section shall be 

thoroughly cleaned and sanitized as prescribed in part 308 of this 

subchapter. The equipment used in the dressing of such carcasses, such 

as viscera trucks or inspection tables, shall be sanitized with hot 

water having a minimum temperature of 180 [deg]F. Carcasses or parts of 

carcasses contaminated by contact with such diseased carcasses shall be 

condemned unless all contaminated tissues are removed within 2 hours.