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Paragraph 22. Meat and products: Carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, products, 
food products, meat products, and meat food products of, or derived from, cattle, 
sheep, swine, and goats, which are capable of being used as food by man. 
Paragraph 23. Meat or product: Any part or all of meat and products. 
Paragraph 24. Immediate container, or true container: The unit can, pot, tin, 
«canvas, or other receptacle or covering in which any meat or product is customarily 
delivered to consumers. 
Paragraph 25. Shipping container, or outside container: The box, bag, barrel, 
crate, or other receptacle or covering inclosing any meat or product packed in two 
or more immediate or true containers. 
_ Paragraph 26. Person: Natural persons, individuals, firms, partnerships, corpora- 
tions, companies, societies, and associations, and every agent, officer, or employee 
of ay thereof. This term shall import both the plural and the singular as the case 
may be. 
Paragraph 27, Subsidiary: Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, com- 
pany, or association, in whose name any business is done, controlled, or owned, in 
whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by another. 
Section 2. Wherever in these regulations the phrase “inspected and passed 
under the provisions of (or according to) the act of Congress of June 30, 1906” is 
authorized or required to be used, the phrase “U.S. inspected and passed by Depart- 
ment of Agriculture’’ may be substituted therefor. 
Sectron 3. On and after three years from the date of the order adopting these 
regulations the phrase “inspected and passed under the provisions of (or according 
to) the act of Congress of June 30, 1906” shall not be used as an inspection legend, 
‘unless hereafter expressly authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture upon its being 
shown to his satisfaction that continuance of the use thereof for a longer period 
is equitable and is rendered necessary in order to utilize stocks of labels on hand or 
ordered at the time this regulation takes effect. 
Regulation 2. Scope of Inspection. 
Section 1. Every establishment in which cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are slaugh- 
tered for transportation or sale as articles of interstate or foreign commerce, or in 
which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, meat products, or meat food products of, 
or derived from, cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are, wholly or in part, canned, cured, 
smoked, salted, packed, rendered, or otherwise prepared for transportation or sale 
as articles of interstate or foreign commerce which are capable of being used as food 
for man, shall have inspection under these regulations, except as expressly exempted 
‘by regulation 4. 
Srction 2. All cattle, sheep, swine, and goats and all meat and products entering 
an establishment at which inspection is required by these regulations, and all meat 
and products prepared, in whole or in part, therein, shall be inspected, handled, pre- 
‘pared, and marked as required by these regulations. 
Regulation 3. Organization of Force. 
Section 1. Meat inspection is conducted, under the direction of the Secretary 
-of Agriculture, by the Bureau of Animal Industry. All permanent employees en- 
gaged in the work of meat inspection are appointed upon certification of the United 
‘States Civil Service Commission that they have passed the examination prescribed 
by that commission. These employees are classified as shown in the following sec- 
tions of this regulation. Promotions are made on the basis of efficiency, deportment, 
and length of service. 
Section 2. Inspectors in charge. These are inspectors assigned to supervise 
and perform official work at each official station. Such employees report directly 
to the chief of bureau and are chosen by reason of their fitness for responsibility as 
determined by their records in the service. At stations where slaughtering is con- 
ducted, only veterinary inspectors are placed in charge. a 
Section 3. Veterinary inspectors. All applicants examined for these positions 
must be graduates of veterinary colleges, accredited by the United States Civil Service 
Commission, having a course of not less than three years leading to a degree. Veteri- 
