§ 1.231. Marking of outside containers—general.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, when any inspected and passed product for domestic commerce is moved from an official establishment, the outside container shall bear an official inspection legend.
(b) When any product prepared in an official establishment for domestic commerce has been inspected and passed and is enclosed in a cloth or other wrapping such wrapping shall bear the official inspection legend applied by the approved two and one-half inch rubber brand except that:
(1) the rubber brand may be omitted if the official inspection legend and official establishment number on the product itself are clearly legible through the wrapping or the wrapping is labeled in accordance with this Subchapter; and
(2) plain unprinted wrappings, such as stockinettes, cheese cloth, paper and crinkled paper bags, for properly marked products which are used solely to protect the product against soiling or excessive drying during transportation or storage, need not bear the official inspection legend.
(c) Slack barrels used as outside containers of products shall have a cloth or paper top covering bearing the official inspection legend. At the time of removal of the covering the official inspection legend shall be destroyed.
(d) The outside containers of any product which has been inspected and passed for cooking, pork which has been refrigerated as provided in § 1.331(b)(2) (relating to treatment of pork and products containing pork) and beef which has been inspected and passed for refrigeration shall bear the markings and tag prescribed in § 1.544(b) (relating to products requiring special supervision).
(e) The outside containers of glands and organs which are not used for human food purposes, such as those described in § 1.553 (relating to materials exempted from this subchapter), shall be plainly marked with the phrase ‘‘For pharmaceutical purposes,’’ ‘‘For organotherapeutic purposes’’ or ‘‘For technical purposes,’’ as appropriate, with no reference to inspection, and need not bear other markings otherwise required in this chapter.
(f) Stencils, box dies, labels and brands may be used on shipping containers of properly labeled products and on such immediate containers of properly marked products as tierces, barrels, drums, boxes, crates and large-size fiberboard containers, without approval if the stencils, box dies, labels and brands are not false or misleading and are approved by the officer in charge. The official inspection legend for use with such markings shall be approved by the Department.
(g) The outside containers of livers prepared as specified in § 1.210 (relating to shipping of condemned livers; conditions for disposal) shall be marked as provided in the section.
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