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Section 10. The outer premises of every official establishment, embracing docks 
and areas where cars and wagons are loaded, and the driveways, approaches, yards, 
pens, and alleys, shall be properly drained and kept in clean and orderly condition. 
All catch basins on the premises shall be of such construction and location and be 
given such attention as will insure their being kept in acceptable condition as regards 
odors and cleanliness. The accumulation on the premises of establishments of any 
material in which flies may breed, such as hog hair, bones, paunch contents, or manure, 
is forbidden. No nuisance shall be allowed in any establishment or on its premises. 
Section 11. No establishment shall employ in any department where any meat 
or product is handled or prepared, any person affected with tuberculosis or other 
communicable disease. 
Section 12. When necessary, bureau employees shall attach a “U. S. rejected’ 
tag to any equipment or utensil which is insanitary, or the use of which would be 
in violation of these regulations. No equipment or utensil so tagged shall again be 
used until made sanitary. Such tag so placed shall not be removed by anyone other 
than a bureau employee. 
Regulation 9. Ante-Mortem Inspection. 
Section 1. Paragraph 1. An ante-mortem examination and inspection shall be 
made of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats about to be slaughtered in an official estab- 
lishment before their slaughter shall be allowed. 
Paragraph 2. Such ante-mortem inspection shall be made in pens on the premises 
of the establishment in which the animals are about to be slaughtered, except as pro- 
vided in paragraph 8 of this section. 
Paragraph 3. At each official station where there are public stockyards, upon 
approval of the chief of bureaus, ante-mortem inspection may be conducted at the 
scales or in the pens of the yards. Inspection under this paragraph shall be performed 
only on animals presented for inspection bv an official establishment. Except as 
provided in section 7 of this regulation, every animal marked as a suspect on such 
Inspection shall be slaughtered at an official establishment of the official station at 
which the inspection was made. If any such animal be not so slaughtered or disposed 
of in compliance with section 7 of this regulation, then thereafter no ante-mortem 
inspection shall be done under this paragraph for the official establishment which 
presented the animal for inspection, and ante-mortem inspection for that establish- 
ment shall be performed only in pens on its premises in accordance with paragraph 2 
of this section. Upon the chief of bureau being satisfied at any time that inspection 
at scales or in pens of public stockyards is being used for speculative or other unfair 
or unjust purposes by an official establishment or by anyone in whose behalf it presents 
animals for inspection under this paragraph, then he shall require ante-mortem inspec- 
tion for that establishment thereafter to be made only in accordance with paragraph 2 
of this section. The chief of bureau may at any time withdraw ante-mortem inspec- 
tion, in whole or in part, from any public stockyards. 
Paragraph 4. If an animal marked as a suspect on inspection at public stockyards 
be not slaughtered by the establishment by which it was presented for inspection, 
then such animal shal] be removed from the place of inspection only under the supervi- 
sion of a bureau employee, and until slaughtered in compliance with paragraph 3 
of this section or disposed of pursuant to section 7 of this regulation, shall remain 
under the supervision of a bureau employee. Every animal marked as a suspect 
on inspection in the pens of an official establishment shall be slaughtered on the premises 
of that establishment unless disposed of pursuant to section 7 of this regulation. 
Paragraph 5. The withdrawal of ante-mortem inspection from public stockyards, 
in whole or in part, shal] not be a substitute for, but shall be in addition to, any penalty 
for violating these regulations elsewhere prescribed by these regulations or prescribed 
by the meat inspection act. 
Section 2. Paragraph 1. All animals plainly showing on ante-mortem inspection 
any disease or condition that under these regulations would cause condemnation of 
their carcasses on post-mortem inspection shall be marked “U. S. condemned” and 
disposed of in accordance with section 8 of this regulation. 
