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 Facilities for such cleansing and disinfection, approved by the inspector in charge, shall be provided by the establishment. Separate trucks, etc., shall be furnished for handling diseased carcasses and parts. Following the slaughter of an animal affected with an infectious disease a stop shall be made until the implements have been cleansed and disinfected unless duplicate implements are provided.

(i) Inspectors are required to furnish their own knives for use in dissecting or incising diseased carcasses or parts, and are required to use the same means for disinfecting knives, hands, etc., that are prescribed for employees of the establishment.

(j) Meats and meat food products intended for rendering into edible products must be prevented from falling on the floor, while being emptied into the tanks, by the use of some device, such as a metal funnel.

(k) Plans of new plants and of plants to be remodeled should be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture.

(l) Carcasses or parts of carcasses inflated with air blown from the mouth shall not be marked "U. S. Inspected and Passed."

(m) Carcasses dressed with skewers that have been held in the mouth shall not be marked "U. S. Inspected and Passed."

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND TERMS.

Wherever in these regulations the following words, names, or terms are used they shall be construed as follows:

Inspectors and Department Employees.—These terms shall mean, respectively, inspectors and employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry.

"U. S. Inspected and Passed."—This phrase shall mean that the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meats, and meat food products so marked are sound, healthful, wholesome, and contain no dyes, chemicals, preservatives, or ingredients which render meats or meat food products unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, unclean, or unfit for human food.

Rendered into Lard or Tallow.—This phrase shall mean that the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meats, and meat food products so designated have been passed for the preparation of lard or tallow only.

"U. S. Inspected and Condemned."—This phrase shall mean that the carcasses, parts of carcasses, and meat food products so marked are unfit for food and shall be destroyed for food purposes.

Carcass.—This word shall mean an animal that has been killed under these regulations, including all parts which are to be used for food.

Primal Parts of Carcass.—This phrase shall mean the usual sections or cuts of the dressed carcass commonly known in the trade, such as sides, quarters, shoulders, hams, backs, bellies, etc., and entire edible organs, such as tongues, livers, etc., before they have been cut, shredded, or otherwise subdivided preliminary to use in the manufacture of meat food products.

Meat Food Products.—This term shall mean any product used for food into the composition of which any portion of the carcass enters, or in the preparation of which any portion of the carcass is used, including lard, mince-meat, extracts, gelatin, oleomargarine, butterine, soups, etc.

Vinegar.—The word vinegar, as used herein, shall mean cider vinegar, wine vinegar, malt vinegar, sugar vinegar, glucose vinegar, or spirit vinegar, as defined by the Com-