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  1. Title 9 —Animals and Animal Products
  2. Chapter III —Food Safety and Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture
  3. Subchapter A —Agency Organization and Terminology; Mandatory Meat and Poultry Products Inspection and Voluntary Inspection and Certification
  4. Part 311   View Full Text
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Title 9Animals and Animal ProductsPart / Section
Chapter IIIFood Safety and Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture300 – 599
Subchapter AAgency Organization and Terminology; Mandatory Meat and Poultry Products Inspection and Voluntary Inspection and Certification300 – 381
Part 311Disposal of Diseased or Otherwise Adulterated Carcasses and Parts311.1 – 311.39
§ 311.1Disposal of diseased or otherwise adulterated carcasses and parts; general.
§ 311.2Tuberculosis.
§ 311.3Hog cholera.
§ 311.5Swine erysipelas.
§ 311.6Diamond-skin disease.
§ 311.7Arthritis.
§ 311.8Cattle carcasses affected with anasarca or generalized edema.
§ 311.9Actinomycosis and actinobacillosis.
§ 311.10Anaplasmosis, anthrax, babesiosis, bacillary hemoglobinuria in cattle, blackleg, bluetongue, hemorrhagic septicemia, icterohematuria in sheep, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, leptospirosis, malignant epizootic catarrh, strangles, purpura hemorrhagica, azoturia, infectious equine encephalomyelitis, toxic encephalomyelitis (forage poisoning), infectious anemia (swamp fever), dourine, acute influenza, generalized osteoporosis, glanders (farcy), acute inflammatory lameness, extensive fistula, and unhealed vaccine lesions.
§ 311.11Neoplasms.
§ 311.12Epithelioma of the eye.
§ 311.13Pigmentary conditions; melanosis, xanthosis, ochronosis, etc.
§ 311.14Abrasions, bruises, abscesses, pus, etc.
§ 311.15Brucellosis.
§ 311.16Carcasses so infected that consumption of the meat may cause food poisoning.
§ 311.17Necrobacillosis, pyemia, and septicemia.
§ 311.18Caseous lymphadenitis.
§ 311.19Icterus.
§ 311.20Sexual odor of swine.
§ 311.21Mange or scab.
§ 311.22Hogs affected with urticaria, tinea tonsurans, demodex follicurlorum, or erythema.
§ 311.23Tapeworm cysts (cysticercus bovis) in cattle.
§ 311.24Hogs affected with tapeworm cysts.
§ 311.25Parasites not transmissible to man; tapeworm cysts in sheep; hydatid cysts; flukes; gid bladder-worms.
§ 311.26Emaciation.
§ 311.27Injured animals slaughtered at unusual hours.
§ 311.28Carcasses of young calves, pigs, kids, lambs, and foals.
§ 311.29Unborn and stillborn animals.
§ 311.30Livestock suffocated and hogs scalded alive.
§ 311.31Livers affected with carotenosis; livers designated as “telangiectatic,” “sawdust,” or “spotted.”
§ 311.32Vesicular diseases.
§ 311.33Listeriosis.
§ 311.34Anemia.
§ 311.35Muscular inflammation, degeneration, or infiltration.
§ 311.36Coccidioidal granuloma.
§ 311.37Odors, foreign and urine.
§ 311.38Meat and meat byproducts from livestock which have been exposed to radiation.
§ 311.39Biological residues.
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