[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: 9CFR310.2]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 310_POST-MORTEM INSPECTION--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 310.2  Identification of carcass with certain severed parts thereof and with animal from which derived.



    (a) The head, tail, tongue, thymus gland, and all viscera of each 

slaughtered animal, and all blood and other parts of such animal to be 

used in the preparation of meat food products or medical products, shall 

be handled in such a manner as to identify them with the rest of the 

carcass and as being derived from the particular animal involved, until 

the post-mortem examination of the carcass and parts thereof has been 

completed. Such handling shall include the retention of ear tags, 

backtags, implants, and other identifying devices affixed to the animal, 

in such a way to relate them to the carcass until the post-mortem 

examination has been completed.

    (b) The official State-Federal Department backtag on any carcass 

shall:

    (1)(i) Be removed from the hide of the animal by an establishment 

employee and placed in a clear plastic bag. The bag containing the tag 

shall be affixed to the corresponding carcass.

    (ii) The bag containing the tag shall be removed from the carcass by 

an establishment employee and presented with the viscera to the Program 

inspector at the point where such inspector conducts the viscera 

inspection.

    (2)(i) Brucellosis and tuberculosis ear tags, herd identification 

ear tags, sales tags, ear bangles, and similar identification devices 

shall be removed from the animal's hide or ear by an establishment 

employee and shall be placed in a clear plastic bag and affixed to the 

corresponding carcass.

    (ii) The bag containing the tag shall be removed from the carcass by 

an establishment employee and presented with the viscera to the Program 

inspector at the point where such inspector conducts the viscera 

inspection.

    (3) In cases where both types of devices described in paragraphs 

(b)(1) and (2) of this section are present on the same animal, both 

types may be placed in the same plastic bag or in two separate bags.

    (4) The circuit supervisor may allow the use of any alternate method 

proposed by the operator of an official establishment for handling the 

type of devices described in paragraph (b)(2) of this section if such 

alternate method would provide a ready means of identifying a specific 

carcass with the corresponding devices by a Program inspector during the 

post-mortem inspection.

    (5) Disposition and use of identifying devices.

    (i) The official State-Federal Department backtags will be collected 

by a Program inspector and used to obtain traceback information 

necessary for proper disposition of the animal or carcass and otherwise 

handled according to instructions issued to the inspectors.

    (ii) The devices described in paragraph (b)(2) of this section shall 

be collected by the Program inspector when required to obtain traceback 

information necessary for proper disposition of the animal or carcass 

and for controlling the slaughter of reactor animals. Devices not 

collected for these purposes shall be discarded after the post-mortem 

examination is complete.

    (6) Plastic bags used by the establishment for collecting 

identifying devices will be furnished by the Department.



[35 FR 15567, Oct. 3, 1970; 36 FR 12004, June 24, 1971]