eign country, the carrier may so transport such product which is identified as derived from any of such animals slaughtered by a farmer on the farm. The car rier shall require, and the shipper shall make and deliver to the carrier, a certificate in duplicate in the following form printed on paper 31⁄2 x 8 inches: SHIPMENT OF MEAT OR MEAT FOOD PRODUCTS FROM ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED BY A FARMER ON THE FARM Make in duplicate; send one copy to Director, Meat Inspection Division, I hereby certify that the following described uninspected meat or meat food products are from animals slaughtered by a farmer on the farm, and are offered for transportation in interstate or foreign commerce as exempted from inspection according to the Meat-Inspection Act of March 4, 1907, as amended, and that at this date they are sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, and contain no preservative or coloring matter or other substance prohibited by the Federal meat inspection regulations. Signature of shipper and address City State City State Fresh meats Processed meats such as salted, cooked, cured, Veal (2) Mutton (3) Lamb (3) Pork (5) | Goat (4) | Goat kid dried, or canned meat; sausage, lard, etc. (9) Pounds The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in full. This certificate shall be separate and apart from any waybill, bill of lading, or other form ordinarily used in the transportation of meat. The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immediately by the initial carrier to the Director of the Meat Inspection Division, Washington, D. C. If the product is transported by the shipper himself a certificate shall nevertheless be forwarded by him to the Director of the Meat Inspection Division. § 25.12 Waybills, transfer bills, etc., evidence of proper certification required for shipment by connecting carrier; form of statement. All waybills, transfer bills, running slips, conductor's cards, or other papers accompanying an interstate or foreign shipment of any product shall have embodied therein, stamped thereon, or attached thereto a signed statement which shall be evidence to connecting carriers that the proper shipper's certificate, as required by §§ 25.5, 25.6, 25.7, 25.9, 25.10, or 25.11, is on file with the initial carrier; and no connecting carrier shall receive for transportation or transport any in and passed and marked with the inspection legend, has become unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food after it has been transported away from an official establishment, then, in order to ascertain whether it is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food, the same may be transported from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any official establishment in the same or another State or Territory or the District of Columbia if a written permit in duplicate for such shipment is first obtained from the inspector in charge of the establishment to which the shipment is destined. In case of every such shipment both the original and the duplicate of the permit shall be surrendered to the carrier, and the carrier shall require and the shipper shall make and deliver to the carrier a certificate in duplicate in the following form: 1 The signature of the agent shall be written in full. (c) Upon the arrival of the shipment at the establishment, a careful inspection shall be made of the product by a division inspector, and if it is found that the article is sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, the same may be received into the establishment; but if the article is found to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food, the same shall at once be stamped "U. S. inspected and condemned" and disposed of in accordance with Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter. (d) No product which is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food shall be transported from an official establishment under this section. but it shall be disposed of at the official establishment in accordance with Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter: Provided, That when a product is found to come within one of the classes designated in § 18.1 (a) (2) of this subchapter, in respect to which rehandling is permitted, it may be transported from an official establishment and admitted into another official establishment for such rehandling. The transportation of such a product from an official establishment shall be in a manner prescribed by the Director of Division. If the product is transported by the shipper himself a certificate shall nevertheless be forwarded by him to the Director of the Meat Inspection Division. counterfeit, simulate, or falsely represent, or without proper authority to use, fail to use, or detach, or knowingly or wrongfully to alter, deface, or destroy, or to fail to deface or destroy, any of the marks, stamps, tags, labels, or other identification devices provided for in the Meat Inspection Act or in and as directed by the regulations in Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter, on any carcass, part of carcass or the product or containers thereof, subject to the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act, or any certificate in relation thereto authorized or required in the Meat Inspection Act or as directed in the regulations in Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter. PART 24-EXPORT STAMPS AND CERTIFICATES1 Sec. 24.1 Manner of affixing stamps and marking product for export. 24.2 Export stamps and certificates; instructions concerning issuance. 24.3 Export transportation without certificate prohibited. 24.4 Uninspected tallow, stearin, oleo oil, etc.; not to be exported unless exporter certifies as inedible. 24.5 Product packed with preservative for export; required stamps and certifi cates; affixing and removal of stamps. AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 24 issued under sec. 306, 46 Stat. 689, as amended; 19 U.S.C. 1306, as amended; and 34 Stat. 1264; 21 U.S.C. 89, which interprets or applies 34 Stat. 1261, 1263; 21 U.S.C. 74, 83-86, 89, 96; 19 F.R. 74, as amended. SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 24 appear at 24 F.R. 4024, May 19, 1959, except as otherwise noted. (b) Such stamps shall be securely affixed, and if the container be of wood the stamps shall be placed either (1) in a grooved space made by removing a portion of the wood of sufficient size to admit the stamp, (2) on either end of the package, provided that the sides thereof are made to project at least one-eighth of an inch to afford the necessary protection from abrasion, or (3) in some other equally satisfactory manner acceptable to the inspector in charge. (c) The cloth wrapping used as an outside container of any inspected and passed product for export shall bear the inspection legend and the establishment number applied by the 21⁄2-inch rubber brand or a numbered export meat inspection stamp as may be required by the foreign country to which the product is being exported. meat-inspection (d) A numbered stamp shall be affixed to each tank car of inspected and passed lard or similar edible product, and to each door of each railroad car or other closed vehicle containing inspected and passed loose product shipped direct to a foreign country. [24 F.R. 4024, May 19, 1959, as amended, 26 F.R. 1053, Feb. 3, 1961] § 24.2 Export stamps and certificates; instructions concerning issuance, (a) Upon application of the exporter, the inspector in charge is authorized to issue certificates for shipments of inspected and passed product to any foreign country. Certificates should be issued at the time the articles leave the official establishment; if not issued at that time, they may be issued later only after identification and reinspection of the products. (b) Export certificates shall be issued in serial numbers and in triplicate form. Quadruplicate certificates may be issued for any exportation on request of the exporter. Each certificate shall show the names of the exporter and the consignee, the destination, the numbers of the stamps, if any, attached to the articles to be exported, the number and type of packages, the shipping marks, the kind of product, and the weight. (c) Only one certificate shall be issued for each consignment, except that for sufficient reasons new certificates may be issued by inspectors in charge. A certificate issued in lieu of another shall show in the left hand margin the (e) The duplicate of the certificate shall be delivered to the shipper and by him delivered to the agent of the railroad or other carrier which transports the consignment from the United States otherwise than by water, or to the chief officer of the vessel on which the export shipment is made and without which no clearance shall be given to any vessel having aboard any product destined to countries listed in § 24.3, and shall be used only by these agencies and for the purpose of effecting the transportation of the consignment certified. The chief officer of the vessel shall file such duplicate with the customs officer at the time of filing the master's manifest or the supplemental manifest. (f) The triplicate of the certificate shall be retained in the station file. (g) Under no circumstances shall the original or the triplicate of such certificate be used for the purpose that is prescribed by paragraph (e) of this section for the duplicate. (h) Upon request, certificates and stamps may be issued by inspectors in charge for export consignments of product of official establishments not under their supervision, provided the consignments are first identified as having been "U.S. inspected and passed" and are found to be sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food. (i) No erasures or alterations shall be made on a certificate. All certificates rendered useless through clerical error or otherwise and all certificates cancelled for whatever cause shall be destroyed. (j) All export certificates shall be so executed that the data entered thereon will appear in the proper spaces on each copy of the certificate. § 24.3 Export transportation without certificate prohibited. No person operating any steam or sailing vessel, and no railroad or other car 75 rier, shall receive for transportation or transport from the United States to Great Britain or Ireland, or any of the countries of continental Europe, or to Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, the French Antilles, Cuba, Algeria, Bermuda, Trinidad, or Panama, any product, except ship stores and small quantities exclusively for the personal use of the consignee and not for sale or distribution, unless and until a certificate of inspection covering the same has been issued and delivered as provided in this part. The requirement of export certificates is waived for product exported to countries other than those named in this section. The waiving of the requirement of export certificates for product exported to certain countries does not waive the requirements of § 24.1. $24.4 Uninspected tallow, stearin, oleo oil, etc.; not to be exported unless exporter certifies as inedible. No tallow, stearin, oleo oil, or the rendered fat derived from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, that has not been inspected, passed, and marked in compliance with the regulations in Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter shall be exported, unless the shipper files with the collector of customs at the port from which the export shipment is made a certificate by the exporter that such article is inedible. § 24.5 Product packed with preservative for export; required stamps and certificates; affixing and removal of stamps. (a) Numbered stamps and certificates of a distinctive color, known as preservative stamps and certificates, shall be issued to identify all products prepared or packed with preservatives for export. The stamps shall be securely affixed to containers of the product before they leave the official establishment, in the manner prescribed by § 24.1(b). Unless the Director of Division shall otherwise direct, upon special application to him, the certificates shall be issued before the products leave the official establishment, and shall be issued and used in the same way and shall serve the same purposes as the certificates issued pursuant to § 24.2. (b) Prior to export, no preservative stamp required by this section shall be detached from the container except under the personal supervision of a Divi sion employee. If the preservative stamp is detached, then the product in the container shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of § 18.8 of this subchapter. Sec. 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.5 25.6 25.7 25.8 25.9 PART 25-TRANSPORTATION Interstate or foreign transportation prohibited without certificates; imported product prior to inspection excepted if properly identified. Parcel post and ferries deemed carriers. Certificate for product transported Form of certificate for interstate or Shipment of paunches between of- 25.10 Exemption; certificate for shipment of uninspected product. 25.11 Farmers; certificate for shipment of uninspected product. 25.12 Waybills, transfer bills, etc., evidence of proper certification required for shipment by connecting carrier; form of statement. 25.13 Returned products; requirements pertaining to. 25.14 Denaturing of uninspected or in spected meat known to be unsound, grease, etc., required prior to shipment; certificate for shipment; statement to appear on waybills, etc., of connecting carrier. 25.15 Certificates to be filed and retained by carriers for one year. 25.16 Diverting of shipments, breaking of seals and reloading by carrier in emergency; reporting to Director of Division. 25.17 Provisions in this part do not apply to specimens for laboratory examination, etc., or to inedible articles not having physical characteristics of edible products. AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 25 issued under 34 Stat. 1260-1264, 41 Stat. 241; sec. 306, 46 Stat. 689, 19 U.S.C. 1306, 21 U.S.C. 74, 83-86, 89, 96; 19 F.R. 74, as amended. SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 25 appear at 23 F.R. 9969, Dec. 23, 1958, except as otherwise noted. § 25.1 Interstate or foreign transportation prohibited without certificates ; imported product prior to inspection excepted if properly identified.1 No carrier shall transport or receive for transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia to another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to a foreign country, any product derived wholly or in part from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats unless and until a certificate is made and furnished to such carrier in one of the forms prescribed therefor in this part: Provided, however, That any such product offered for importation into the United States may be transported and received for transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, without such certificate, if such product is conveyed, prior to inspection, in cars, wagons, vehicles, or packages, sealed with special importmeat seals of the Department of Agriculture or with customs or consular seals or otherwise identified as provided in Part 27 of this subchapter. [26 F.R. 1054, Feb. 3, 1961] § 25.2 Parcel post and ferries deemed carriers. (a) For the purposes of Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter, the United States parcel post shall be deemed a carrier, and the provisions of Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter relating to transportation by carrier shall apply, so far as they may be applicable, to transportation by parcel post. (b) For the purposes of Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter, every ferry and ferry line shall be deemed a carrier, and the provisions of Parts 1 through 29 of this subchapter relating to transportation by carrier shall apply to transportation by ferry or ferry line of any prod 1 Attention is directed to the fact that the Meat Inspection Act prohibits the interstate transportation of any product which has not been inspected and marked as required by the Act and makes a violation of the Act a criminal offense punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 and imprisonment for not more than two years. |