OAR 603-029-0845: Livers Condemned Because of Parasitic Infestation and for Other Causes; Conditions for Disposal for Purposes Other than Human Food

(1) Livers condemned on account of hydatid cysts shall be disposed of by tanking pursuant to the provisions of OAR 603-029-0800 if condemned at state-inspected establishments having facilities for tanking; otherwise they shall be destroyed pursuant to the provisions of OAR 603-029-0810. (2) Livers condemned because of parasites other than hydatid cysts; and livers condemned because of telangiectasis, angioma, “sawdust” condition, cirrhosis, carotenosis, or other nonmalignant change, benign abscesses, or contamination, when these conditions are not associated with infectious diseases in the carcasses, may be shipped from a state-inspected establishment only for purposes other than human food, and only if all tissue affected with abscesses is removed and destroyed within the state-inspected establishment, and all livers are processed and denatured, with any agent prescribed in OAR 603-029-1440(1) subsection (a) or (b) or (e), and in accordance with OAR 603-029-1455(1)(f). This provision for movement from a state-inspected establishment is made solely under Division 29 and is not intended to relieve or modify any other applicable requirements under any other law regarding the movement of such articles, for purposes other than use as human food. (3) Livers condemned because of conditions described in section (2) of this rule shall be in containers plainly marked “inedible.”