21 U.S.C. § 604 : US Code - Section 604: Post mortem examination of carcasses and marking or labeling; destruction of carcasses condemned; reinspection

Search 21 U.S.C. § 604 : US Code - Section 604: Post mortem examination of carcasses and marking or labeling; destruction of carcasses condemned; reinspection

For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary shall cause
to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose a post mortem
examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of
all amenable species to be prepared at any slaughtering, meat-
canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in
any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia as articles of
commerce which are capable of use as human food; and the carcasses
and parts thereof of all such animals found to be not adulterated
shall be marked, stamped, tagged, or labeled as "Inspected and
passed"; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag as
"Inspected and condemned" all carcasses and parts thereof of
animals found to be adulterated; and all carcasses and parts
thereof thus inspected and condemned shall be destroyed for food
purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector,
and the Secretary may remove inspectors from any such establishment
which fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part
thereof, and said inspectors, after said first inspection, shall,
when they deem it necessary, reinspect said carcasses or parts
thereof to determine whether since the first inspection the same
have become adulterated, and if any carcass or any part thereof
shall, upon examination and inspection subsequent to the first
examination and inspection, be found to be adulterated, it shall be
destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the
presence of an inspector, and the Secretary may remove inspectors
from any establishment which fails to so destroy any such condemned
carcass or part thereof.