4172
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 128

permitted by Regulation 18 [see extract from Regulation 18 printed at end],
and which is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the
Food and Drugs Act as amended, may be admitted into the United States
without foreign-meat-inspection certificates and without inspection and
marking; but Department Inspectors may inspect any meat or product
offered for importation under this paragraph if there is reason for suspecting
that it is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for food,
or contains any dye, chemical, preservative, or ingredient not permitted
by Regulation 18, or is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of
the Food and Drugs Act as amended.

Paragraph 2. No meat or product offered for importation under para-
graph 1 of this section shall be admitted into the United States if it is un-
sound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, or
if it contains any dye, chemical, preservative, or ingredient not permitted
by Regulation 18, or if it is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning
of the Food and Drugs Act as amended.

Paragraph 3. No carrier or other person shall transport or receive for
transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia
to or through any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or
to any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, any meat or pro-
duct exempted from inspection and admitted into the United States in
compliance with this section unless the shipper shall make and deliver to
the carrier a certificate in duplicate in the following form :—

Date……………………………………… 191 .
Name of carrier……………………………………………………………
Shipper………………………………………………………………………
Point of shipment…………………………………………………………
Consignee…………………………………………………………………
Destination…………………………………………………………………

I hereby certify that the following described uninspected meat or meat food pro-
ducts, offered for transportation in inter-State commerce, were imported into the United
States exclusively for the personal use of the consignee, and not for sale or distribution
and are exempted from inspection by the regulations of the United States Secretary
of Agriculture governing meat-inspection.

Kind of Product. Amount and Weight.
……………………………………… …………………………………………
……………………………………… …………………………………………
……………………………………… …………………………………………
……………………………………… …………………………………………
(Signature of shipper.)
……………………………………… …………………………………………
(Address of shipper.)

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 shipment of meat. The duplicate certi-
ficate shall be forwarded immediately by the initial carrier to the Chief
of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D.C. All waybills, transfer-
bills, running-slips, or conductor’s cards accompanying an inter-State ship-
ment of any meat or product transported in compliance with this section
shall have embodied therein, stamped thereon, or attached thereto a signed
statement which shall be evidence to connecting carriers that the shipper’s
certificate required by this section is on file with the initial carrier; and no
connecting carrier shall receive for transportation or transport any inter-
State shipment of any meat or product under this section unless the way-
bill, transfer-bill, running-slip, or conductor’s card accompanying the same
includes the aforesaid signed statement, in the following form :—

(Name of transportation company.)

Imported for the personal use of consignee and exempt from inspection, as evi-
denced by shipper’s certificate on file with initial carrier.

(Signed)……………………………… Agent.

The signature of the agent shall be written in full.

SECTION 12. Paragraph 1. All imported meat and products, after ad-
mission into the United States in compliance with this regulation, shall
be deemed and treated, and, except as provided in paragraph 3 of section 11
of this regulation, shall be handled and transported, as domestic meat and
products, and shall be subject to all these regulations and to the provisions,
prohibitions, and penalties of the Meat-inspection Act.

Paragraph 2. Imported meat and products inspected, passed, and
marked in accordance with this regulation may, subject to the provisions
of paragraph 1 of section 3 of Regulation 18 [see extract from Regulation 18
printed at end] be taken into official establishments and be mixed with or
added to meat and products in such establishments which have been in-
spected and passed therein.