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Paragraph 2. Each tank car carrying inspected and passed product from an official 
establishment to any destination other than an official establishment shall have 
securely affixed thereto a label showing the true name of the product, the inspection 
legend, the number of the official establishment, and the date of loading. Before the 
car is removed from the place where it is unloaded, the carrier shall remove or obliter- 
ate such label. 
Paragraph 3. When inspected and passed products for export are transferred 
from tank cars to other containers on boats, such transfer shall be under bureau super- 
vision, and the containers on the boats shall be likewise labeled. 
Regulation 17. Labeling 
Section 1. Paragraph 1. When any inspected and passed meat or product is 
placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in an 
official establishment, there shall be attached to such container or covering a trade 
label as hereinafter described. 
Paragraph 2. No container or covering which bears or is to bear a trade label 
shall be filled, in whole or in part, except with articles which have been inspected 
and passed in compliance with these regulations and which are sound, healthful, 
wholesome, fit for human food, and strictly in accordance with the statements on the 
label. No such container or covering shall be filled, in whole or in part, and no trade 
label shall be affixed, except under the supervision of a bureau employee. 
Sxction 2. Paragraph 1. Trade labels shall bear the true name of the meat or 
product contained in the package, and, except as provided in paragraphs 2 and 5 
of this section, shall bear, in prominent letters and figures of uniform size, the phrase 
“U.S. inspected and passed under the act of Congress of June 30, 1906,’ and the 
number of the official establishment at which the meat or product was prepared, or, 
if processed, the number of the establishment at which last processed. Such labels 
may also bear any other statement, not false or misleading, which has been approved 
by the department. 
Paragraph 2. Trade labels within the meaning of these regulations shall include 
printed, lithographed, or embossed labels, stickers, seals, wrappers, and receptacles. 
Metal containers on which the inspection legend is embossed may, with the approval 
of the department, bear the inspection legend in abbreviated form. 
Paragraph 3. Stencils, box dies, inserts, tags, so-called “liners” and “‘circles” and 
like devices shall not bear the inspection legend or any abbreviation or representation 
thereof, nor shall any of them be used in an official establishment unless previously 
approved by the department. 
Paragraph 4. All sealed tin containers of inspected and passed meat and products 
filled in an official establishment shall have embossed thereon the number of that 
establishment. When so marked, the establishment number may be omitted from the 
trade label or wrapper. Trade labels shall not be affixed to containers so as to ob- 
scure the embossed establishment number. 
Paragraph 5. When any meat or product is placed in cartons, or in wrappers of 
paper or cloth, or in such other containers as the department may approve, the inspec- 
tion legend and the establishment number may be embodied in a sticker or seal promi- 
nently displayed with the trade label, but not necessarily a part thereof. Such stickers 
or seals shall not be used without the approval of the department, and shall be securely 
affixed to the containers under the supervision of a bureau employee after an approved 
trade label has been affixed. 
_ Paragraph 6. No detachable device bearing the inspection legend or any abbrevia- 
oe oe representation thereof shall be affixed to any meat or product or the container 
ereof. 
_ Ssxcrion 3. Paragraph 1. No trade label shall be used until it has been approved 
in its final form by the department. Duplicates of new trade labels in the form of 
sketches, proofs, or photographic copies shall be submitted through the inspector in 
charge to the department for approval. After trade labels from approved sketches 
1For further information regarding the wording of the inspection legend, see sections 2 and 3 
of regulation 1. 
