When the dressed carcasses or parts thereof of cattle, sheep, calves, swine, or goats are wrapped or inclosed for shipment for interstate or export commerce in burlap, muslin, cheese cloth, or other similar substance, the covering shall bear a meat-inspection stamp or other mark on which shall appear the establishment number and the words “U. S. Inspected and Passed.”
“U. S. RETAINED” TAG
Regulation 27.
Upon each carcass, or part or detached organ thereof, inspected under [Regulation 14], in which any lesion of disease or other condition is found that would probably render the meat or any organ unfit for food purposes, there shall be placed by a Department employee at the time of inspection a paper tag, numbered in duplicate, bearing the words “U. S. Retained,” attached by a wire and seal. The inspector who attaches this “U. S. Retained” tag shall detach the numbered stub thereof and return it with his report to the inspector in charge. The other portion shall accompany the carcass to the retaining Room.
“U. S. CONDEMNED STAMP.”
Regulation 28.
Upon each carcass, or part or detached organ thereof, which is found on final inspection in the retaining room, or other special place for final inspection, to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, there shall be stamped conspicuously by a Department employee at the time of inspection the words “U. S. Inspected and Condemned.” In addition the “U. S. Retained” tag shall remain upon the carcass and shall be stamped with the words “U. S. Inspected and Condemned.” This stamped “U. S. Retained” tag shall accompany the carcass to the tank and shall be removed immediately before tanking by the Department employee who is supervising that operation, and he shall write or stamp upon the tag the word “Tanked,” the date, sign his name, and return the tag with his report to the inspector in charge. If, however, upon final inspection the carcass is passed for food, the inspector shall stamp the retained tag “U. S. Inspected and Passed,” and return the tag with his report to the inspector in charge.
MARKING OF PRIMAL PARTS.
Regulation 29.
On each primal part, or organ, or the container thereof, which has been inspected and passed, and which is to leave the establishment for interstate or export commerce, and which has not been theretofore marked with the words “U. S. Inspected and Passed,” and the establishment number, there shall be placed, under the personal supervision of a Department employee, a mark, stamp, or brand bearing the words “U. S. Inspected and Passed” and the establishment number. When primal parts or organs are shipped between establishments at which inspection is maintained the number of the establishment need not appear.