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Title: Regulations of Meat Inspection CH
Category: Ministry of Agriculture(農業部)
Chapter Three Post-mortem Inspection of Livestock
Article 12
Livestock carcass or viscera shall be detained if it is deemed in post-mortem inspection that further examination, test or other action is required before a decision of pass/fail can be made.
Article 13
Livestock carcasses or viscera having any of the following conditions and interpreted as pass for heating or freezing shall be processed by heating or freezing under the supervision of the veterinary meat inspector before it can be released for food:
1.Moderate or mild bovine cysticercosis, porcine cysticercosis or echinococcosis.
2.Toxoplasmosis.
Article 14
Livestock carcasses or viscera having any of the following conditions shall be interpreted as fail and shall not be released for food:
1.Having any of the diseases, pathological changes or states as specified in Article 10.
2.Dead before slaughter.
3.Obvious incomplete exsanguination.
4.Carcass with obvious stinky smell or special odor.
5.Not eviscerated within a prescribed period of time after slaughter.
6.Both carcass and viscera at the same time having residues of harmful substances to human or foreign objects that do not comply with relevant regulations.
7.Having other conditions deemed inedible by the central competent authority.
Article 15
Livestock carcass or viscera having any of the following conditions shall have the affected part removed before the normal parts may be released for food; where the slaughter operator refuses to or cannot remove the affected part, the entire carcass or viscera shall be interpreted as fail and deemed inedible:
1.Udders, uterus or testicles of livestock infected by brucellosis or localized pathological lesions caused by brucellosis.
2.Localized lesion caused by swine erysipelas.
3.Localized necrotic lesion.
4.Localized lesion caused by tuberculosis.
5.Localized suppurative lesion caused by actinomycosis or actinobacillosis.
6.Head of livestock affected by listeriosis.
7.Head with deformed cheek and nasal cavity caused by severe atrophic rhinitis.
8.Head and viscera of livestock affected by toxoplasmosis.
9.Pathological changes caused by parasites or tissues that are inseparable from the parasite.
10.Mastitis or lactating udder.
11.Superficial, localized trauma, abscess or necrotic lesion.
12.Localized arthritis.
13.Localized lesion caused by foot rotting.
14.Localized subcutaneous edema.
15.Localized tumor.
16.Localized pustular sore or trauma.
17.Localized pathological change.
18.Apparent deformity.
19.Parts contaminated by inflammatory exudate.
20.Severe mechanical injury and contaminated part.
21.Lungs of livestock inhaling blood or large amount of foreign objects.
22.Parts contaminated by feces or urine.
23.Local tissue with obviously incomplete exsanguination.
24.Local tissue or viscera inflated with water.
25.Other abnormal pathological changes of tissues or viscera.
26.Having residues of harmful substances or foreign objects that do not comply with relevant regulations.
27.Parts deemed as inedible by the veterinary meat inspector.