A person who has requested available records pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 522(a) (3) and § 204.6 shall be promptly notified that, upon payment of applicable fees, he may inspect and copy such records, and purchase copies or extracts thereof, in the office of the Executive Assistant to the Administrator, or business days from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Copies of such records may also be purchased by mail. Applicable fees will be charged for making copies and for other services incidental to making the records available as prescribed by the Director, Office of Plant and Operations, Department of Agriculture.

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§ 301.1

PART 301-DEFINITIONS

Definitions.

For the purposes of Parts 301 through 329 of this subchapter the following words, phrases, names, and terms shall be construed, respectively, to mean:

(a) The Meat Inspection Act. An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 674-679), as re-enacted by an act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1260-1265), as amended and extended (21 U. S. C. 7191, 96).

(b) The Imported-Meat Act. Section 306 of an act entitled "An act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes," approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 689; 19 U.S. C. 1306).

(c) The Department. The United States Department of Agriculture.

(d) Consumer and Marketing Service. The Consumer and Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

(e) Administrator. The Administrator of the Consumer and Marketing Service or any officer or employee of the Department to whom authority has heretofore been delegated or may hereafter be delegated to act in his stead.

180 F.R. 4195, Mar. 31, 1965.

(f) Program. The Meat Inspection Program of the Consumer and Marketing Service.

(g) Inspector. An inspector of the program.

(h) Program employees. Inspectors and all other individuals in the program who are authorized by the Administrator to do any work or perform any duty in connection with meat inspection.

Any

(i) Official establishment. slaughtering, meat canning, curing, smoking, salting, packing, rendering, or other similar establishment at which inspection is maintained under the regulations in Parts 301 through 329 of this subchapter.

(j) Circuit. One or more official establishments included under an officer in charge.

(k) "Inspected and passed,” or “U. S. inspected and passed,” or “U. S. inspected and passed by Department of Agriculture," or any authorized abbreviations thereof. The meat, meat byproducts, or meat food products so marked have been inspected and passed under the regulations in Parts 301 through 329 of this subchapter, and at the time they were inspected, passed, and so marked they were found to be sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food.

(1) "U. S. passed for cooking." The meat and meat byproducts so marked have been inspected and passed on condition that they be rendered into lard, rendered pork fat, or tallow, as prescribed by Part 315 of this subchapter,

or otherwise cooked by a method approved by the Administrator.

(m) “U. S. passed for refrigeration.” The meat and meat byproduct so identified have been inspected and passed on condition that they be refrigerated or otherwise handled as prescribed by Part 311 of this subchapter, or by a method approved by the Administrator.

(n) "U. S. inspected and condemned" or any authorized abbreviation thereof. The carcass, viscera, part of carcass, meat, meat byproduct, or meat food product, so marked or so identified, is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food.

(0) "U. S. retained." The carcass, viscera, part of carcass, meat, meat byproduct, meat food product, or other article so marked or identified is held for further examination by an inspector to determine its disposal.

(p) "U. S. suspect." The animal so marked is suspected of being affected with a disease or condition which may require its condemnation, in whole or in part, when slaughtered, and is subject to further examination by an inspector to determine its disposal.

(q) "U. S. condemned." The animal so marked has been inspected and found to be in a dying condition, or to be affected with any other condition or disease that would require condemnation of its carcass.

(r) Inspection legend. A mark or a statement, authorized by the regulations in Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter, on a product or on the container of a product indicating that the product has been inspected and passed for food by an inspector.

(s) Animal. Cattle, sheep, swine, or goat.

(t) Carcass. All parts, including viscera, of a slaughtered animal that are capable of being used for human food.

(u) Meat. The edible part of the muscle of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve, and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing. It does not include the muscle found in the lips, snout or ears.

(v) Meat byproduct. Any edible part other than meat which has been derived

from one or more cattle, sheep, swine, or goats.

(w) Meat food product. Any article of food, or any article intended for or capable of being used as human food which is derived or prepared, in whole or in substantial and definite part, from any portion of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goat, except such articles as organotherapeutic substances, meat juice, meat extract, and the like, which are only for medicinal purposes and are advertised only to the medical profession.

(x) Product. Any part or all of meat, meat byproduct, and meat food product. (y) Immediate container or true container. The unit can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in which any product is customarily shipped.

(z) Shipping container or outside container. The box, bag, barrel, crate, or other receptacle or covering enclosing any product packed in one or more immediate or true containers.

(aa) Person. Natural person, individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, society, and association, and every officer, agent or employee thereof. This term shall import either the singular or the plural as the case may be. (bb) Officer in Charge. The officer in charge of a circuit.

(cc) Biological residues. Any substance, including metabolites, remaining in the animal at time of slaughter or in any of its tissues after slaughter, as the result of treatment or exposure of the animal to a pesticide, metallic or other inorganic compound, hormone, hormonelike substance, growth promoter, antibiotic, anthelmintic, tranquilizer, or other therapeutic or prophylactic agent.

(34 Stat. 1264, sec. 306, 46 Stat. 689; 19 U.S.C. 1306, 21 U.S.C. 89 and 96) [23 F.R. 9933, Dec. 23, 1958, as amended at 29 F.R. 9889, July 23, 1964; 29 F.R. 15076, Nov. 7, 1964; 30 F.R. 4195, Mar. 31, 1965; 32 FR. 13115, Sept. 15, 1967]

PART 302-SCOPE OF INSPECTION Sec.

302.1 Establishments requiring inspection. 302.2 Animals and product entering inspected establishments. 302.3 Horse slaughtering establishments requiring inspection.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 302 issued under 34 Stat. 1264, sec. 306, 46 Stat. 689; 19 U.S.C. 1306, 21 U.S.C. 89.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 302 appear at 23 F.R. 9934, Dec. 23, 1958, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 30 F.R. 4195, Mar. 31, 1965.