Pennsylvania Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Part I - Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services
Chapter 1 - MEAT HYGIENE
Subchapter C - POSTMORTEM INSPECTIONS
Section 1.129 - Inspection and disposition of lungs; hog lungs
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 52, December 28, 2024
(a) All cattle, calf, sheep and equine lungs intended for food purposes shall be inspected to determine whether foreign matter is present in the air passages. The main bronchi and branches shall be slit by employes of the establishment and, if ingesta or other objectionable foreign matter has entered these passages, the lungs shall be condemned.
(b) Hog lungs shall not be saved as edible product.
(c) Livestock lungs shall not be saved for use as human food.
(d) Lungs found to be affected with disease or pathology and lungs found to be adulterated with chemical or biological residue shall be condemned and identified as "U.S. Inspected and Condemned." Condemned lungs may not be saved for pet food or other nonhuman food purposes. They shall be maintained under inspectional control and disposed of in accordance with this chapter.
(e) Lungs not condemned under subsection (d) may be used in the preparation of pet food or for other nonhuman food purposes at the official establishment, provided they are handled in the manner prescribed in this chapter, or they may be distributed from the establishment in commerce, or otherwise, in accordance with the conditions prescribed in this chapter for nonhuman food purposes or they may be so distributed to pharmaceutical manufacturers for pharmaceutical use in accordance with this chapter if they are labeled as "Inedible (SPECIES) Lungs-for Pharmaceutical Use Only." Otherwise, they shall be disposed of at the official establishment, in accordance with this chapter.
This section cited in 7 Pa. Code § 1.556 (relating to transportation of certain undenatured lungs or lung lobes from official establishments or in commerce).
