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BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 61 



ACT MARCH 4. 1907, c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.) 



Inspection of meat and meat food products for use in interstate or foreign com- 

 merce; examination of cattle, etc., before slaughtering; diseased animals to 

 be slaughtered separately and their carcasses examined. 



For meat inspection : That, hereafter, for the purpose of preventing 

 the u.se in interstate or foreign commerce, as hereinafter provided, 

 of meat and meat food i)rothicts which are unsound, unhcidihful. un- 

 wholesome, or otherwi'-'e unfit for human food, the Secretary of A"-ri- 

 culture, at his discretion, may cause to be made, by inspectors *ap- 

 pointed for that purpose, an examination and in.spection of all cattle, 

 sheep, swine, and goats before they shall be allowed to enter into any 

 slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, rendering, or similar establish'- 

 ment. in which they are to be slaughtered and the meat and meat food 

 products thereof are to be used in interstate or foreign coinmerc<»; and 

 all cattle, .swine, sheep, and goats found on such inspection to show 

 symptoms of disease shall be set apart and slaughtered separately 

 from all other cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, and when so slaughtered 

 the carcasses of said cattle, .sheep, swine, or goats shall be subject to 

 a cnreful examination and inspection, all as provided by the rules and 

 regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, as herein 

 provided for. 



Post-mortem examination of carcasses, etc., of cattle, etc., at slaughtering, 

 packing, etc., establishments, and marking, etc., thereof; destruction of car- 

 casses, etc., condemned; reinspection. 



That for the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for tliat pur- 

 pose, as hereinafter provided, a post-mortem examination and inspec- 

 tion of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, sheep, swine, and 

 goats to be prepared for human consumption at any sla\ightering, 

 meat-canning, salting, packiftg, rendering, or similar establishment 

 in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia for transportation 

 or sale as articles of interstate or foreigri commerce; and the carcasses 

 and parts thereof of all such animals found K) be sound, healthful, 

 wholesome, and fit for human food shall be marked, stamped, tagged, 

 or labeled as " Inspected and passed; '' and said inspectors shall label, 

 mark, stamp, or tag as " Inspected and condemned " all carcasses and 

 parts thereof of animals found to be un.sound. unhealthful. unAvhole- 

 some. or otherwise unfit for human food; and all carcasses and parts 

 thereof thus inspected and condemned shall be destroyed for food 

 purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and 

 the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors from any such 

 establishment which fails to .so destroy any such condemned csircass 

 or part thereof, and said inspectors, after said first inspection, shall, 

 when they deem it necessary, reinspect said carcasses or parts thereof 

 to determine whether since the first inspection the same have become 

 unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for hunian 

 food, and if any carcass or any part thereof shall, upon examination 

 and inspection subsequent to the first examination and insi^ection. be 

 found to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit 

 for human food, it shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said 

 establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Secretary ()f 

 Agriculture may remove inspectors from any establishment which 

 fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof. 



