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 Issued December 5, 1906. 
 
 United' States Department of Agriculture, 
 
 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
 
 Amendment No. 7 to B. A. I. Order No. 137 (Regulations Governing- the 
 Meat Inspection of the United States Department of Agriculture). 
 
 REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE ADMISSION INTO ESTABLISHMENTS 
 WHERE INSPECTION IS MAINTAINED OF THE CARCASSES AND MEAT 
 AND MEAT-FOOD PRODUCTS OF ANIMALS WHICH HAVE NOT HAD 
 POST-MORTEM INSPECTION BY AN INSPECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF 
 ANIMAL INDUSTRY AT THE TIME OF SLAUGHTER; THE INTER- 
 STATE AND FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION OF IMPORTED MEAT AND 
 MEAT-FOOD PRODUCTS ;3 AND THE (INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION 
 OF CERTAIN MEAT AND MEAT-FOOD PRODUCTS ON HAND ON 
 OCTOBER 1. 
 
 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
 
 Office of the Secretary, 
 Washington, D. C, December 5, 1906. 
 
 For the purpose of preventing the use in interstate commerce of meat 
 and meat-food products which are unsound, unwholesome, unhealthful, 
 or otherwise unfit for human food, under authority conferred upon the 
 Secreta^ of Agriculture by the provisions of the act of Congress 
 approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 674), the following new regulations, 
 and an amendment to the amendment to paragraph (j) of Regulation 
 50, are hereby prescribed for the transportation in interstate and foreign 
 commerce of the meat and meat-food products of cattle, sheep, swine, 
 and goats. 
 
 This regulation, which for the purpose of identification is designated 
 as Amendment No. 7 to B. A. I. Order No. 137, shall become and be 
 effective at once. 
 
 James Wilson, 
 Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
 Regulation 62. Meat and meat-food products from the carcasses 
 of animals which have not had post-mortem inspection by inspectors of 
 the Bureau of Animal Industry at the time of slaughter will not, except 
 as hereinafter provided, be admitted into establishments where inspec- 
 tion is maintained. The exception to this rule applies only to car- 
 casses with the head and all viscera, except the stomach, bladder, and 
 
intestines, held together by natural attachments. Such carcasses, if 
 offered for admission into an establishment where inspection is main- 
 tained, shall be inspected, and if found to be free from disease and 
 otherwise sound, wholesome, healthful, and fit for human food, they 
 will be marked " U. S. Inspected and Passed" and admitted into 
 establishments where inspection is maintained. If found to be dis- 
 eased, unsound, unwholesome, unhealthful, or otherwise unfit for human 
 food, they will be marked "U. S. Inspected and Condemned," and the 
 proprietor of the establishment where inspection is maintained will be 
 required to destroy them for food purposes. This is an absolute require-, 
 ment of the meat-inspection law and can not be waived or departed 
 from in any instance or particular. 
 
 Regulation 63. Establishments where inspection is maintained 
 which also process or prepare imported meat or meat-food products 
 will be required to conduct such processing or preparation in a building 
 separate and apart from the building in which domestic meat and meat- 
 food products are prepared under Department supervision. The 
 Attorney-General, in opinion dated September 27, 1906, ruled that the 
 meat-inspection amendment did not cover the transportation of 
 imported meat and meat-food products. Therefore, imported meat 
 and meat-food products which have not been mixt with or added to 
 domestic meat or meat-food products may be exported to any foreign 
 country without the certificate required by Regulation 45, as amended 
 by Amendment No. 3 to B. A. I. Order No. 137. However, the col- 
 lector of customs should require an affidavit that any such meat or 
 meat-food product offered for export is in fact imported and not mixt 
 with or added to any domestic meat or meat-food product. 
 
 Regulation 64. Imported meat and meat-food product which has 
 not been mixt with or added to domestic meat or meat-food product 
 may be transported in interstate commerce. When any imported meat 
 or meat-food product which has not been mixt with or added to any 
 domestic meat or meat-food product is offered to any common carrier 
 for transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Colum- 
 bia to another State or Territory or the District of Columbia as inter- 
 state or foreign shipment, the person, firm, or corporation offering such 
 imported meat or meat-food product shall make the following certificate, 
 in duplicate, and deliver the same to the common carrier: 
 
 Date , 190 
 
 Name of carrier to which offered 
 
 Shipper 
 
 Consignee 
 
 Point of shipment 
 
 Destination 
 
 Car number and initial 
 
 (Need not be given in the case of express companies or ships.) 
 
The following-described meats or meat-food products are imported and have 
 not been mixt with or added to any domestic meat or meat-food product, and 
 are sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food : 
 
 Description and iveight of shipment. 
 
 (Signature of shipper.) 
 
 The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immediately by the initial 
 carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, 
 D. C. The waybills, transfer bills, running slips, or conductors' cards 
 accompanying a car containing a shipment of imported meat or meat- 
 food product made under this regulation must have embodied in, 
 stamped upon, or attached to the same a certificate in the following 
 form by the issuing railroad company : 
 
 (Name of railroad company) 
 
 Imported meat and meat-food product not mixt with domestic meat or meat- 
 food product, as evidenced by shipper's certificate on file with initial carrier. 
 
 (Signed) , Agent. 
 
 Regulation 50. Paragraph (j) of Regulation 50, as amended by 
 Amendment No. 4 to B. A. I. Order No. 137, is hereby further amended 
 by inserting the w T ords " and December" after the word "November" 
 in the seventh line of the said paragraph and by inserting the w r ords 
 "and January, 1907," after the figures "1906" in the seventh line of 
 said paragraph. The effect of this amendment is to add tw r o months to 
 the time during which sweet pickled, dry salted, smoked, and other 
 similar meats, lard, lard compounds, lard substitutes, butterine, and 
 oleomargarine, which w r ere on hand on October 1, may be inspected and 
 past and moved in interstate commerce. 
 
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