Pennsylvania Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Part I - Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services
Chapter 1 - MEAT HYGIENE
Subchapter D - DISPOSAL OF DISEASED OR OTHERWISE ADULTERATED CARCASSES
Section 1.165 - Tapeworm cysts in sheep

Carcasses of sheep affected with tapeworm cysts (cysticercus ovis, so-called sheep measles not transmissible to man) may be passed for human food after the removal and condemnation of the affected portions, if, upon the final inspection of sheep carcasses retained on account of measles, the total number of cysts found embedded in muscular tissue or in immediate relation with muscular tissue, excluding the heart, exceeds five, the entire carcass shall be condemned, or such carcass shall be heated throughout to a temperature of at least 140°F after removal and condemnation of all affected portions.