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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 128

loaded, unless the same is conveyed in cars, wagons, or other vehicles, sealed, or in packages corded and sealed, in compliance with paragraph 8 of this section.

Paragraph 8. Cars, wagons, vehicles, or packages in which any meat or product is conveyed in accordance with this section, prior to inspection, from the port of first arrival in the United States, or, if arriving by water, from the wharf where unloaded, unless already sealed with Customs or consular seals in accordance with the Customs Regulations, shall be sealed with special import-meat seals of the Department of Agriculture. Packages shall be securely corded before being offered for sealing. Such special seals shall be affixed by Department Inspectors, or, if there be no Department Inspector at such port or wharf, then by Customs officers.

Paragraph 9. Except Customs officers and Department Inspectors, no person shall affix, break, alter, deface, mutilate, remove, or destroy any special import-meat seal of the Department of Agriculture.

Paragraph 10. No meat or product shall be removed from any car, wagon, vehicle, or package sealed with a special import-meat seal of the Department of Agriculture except under the supervision of a Department Inspector or a Customs officer.

Paragraph 11. No meat or product required by this regulation to be inspected shall be moved, prior to inspection, from any port, or, if arriving by water, from the wharf where first unloaded, to any place other than the place designated by, or in accordance with, this section as the place where the same shall be inspected.

Paragraph 12. No meat or product required by this regulation to be inspected shall be conveyed, prior to inspection, from any port, or, if arriving by water, from the wharf where first unloaded, in any manner other than in compliance with this section.

Paragraph 13. No meat or product required by this regulation to be inspected shall be delivered to the consignee or his agent prior to inspection, unless the consignee shall furnish a bond, in form prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned that the meat or product shall be returned, if demanded, to the Collector of the port where the same is offered for clearance through the Customs.

Paragraph 14. The consignee or his agent shall furnish such facilities and shall provide such assistants for handling and marking meat and products offered for importation as Department Inspectors may require.

SECTION 8. Compartments of steamships, sailing-vessels, railroad-cars, and other conveyances transporting any meat or product to the United States, and all trucks, chutes, platforms, racks, tables, tools, utensils, and all other devices used in moving and handling any meat or product offered for importation into the United States, shall be maintained in a sanitary condition.

SECTION 9. Paragraph 1. Department Inspectors shall take, without cost to the United States, from each consignment offered for importation, samples of any meat or product which is subject to chemical analysis, except that samples of any meat or product offered for importation without inspection under section 11 of this regulation shall not be taken unless there is reason for suspecting the presence therein of a substance in violation of that section.

Paragraph 2. If the inspection of samples indicates that any meat or product offered for importation into the United States is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, a thorough inspection of the whole consignment from which the samples were taken shall be made.

Paragraph 3. Carcases and parts of carcases offered for importation from which such tissues as the peritoneum, pleura, body lymph glands, or the portal glands of the liver have been removed shall be condemned.

Paragraph 4. Any meat or product offered for importation which is found upon inspection to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, or to contain any dye, chemical, preservative, or ingredient not permitted by Regulation 18 [see extract from Regulation 18, printed at end], or which is of a kind required by paragraph 1 of section 3 of this regulation to be refused admission, shall be condemned and marked “ U.S. inspected and condemned,” except that, upon application to the Inspector, any meat or product which is found to contain preservatives not permitted by these regulations, but in the preparation or packing of which no substance has been used in conflict with the laws of the foreign country from which exported, and which is not found to be otherwise unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food, may be marked “ U.S. refused entry.”

Paragraph 5. Any meat or product, or the container thereof, offered for importation from any foreign country and accompanied by a foreign certi-