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Form B.
OFFICIAL MEAT INSPECTION CERTIFICATE OF COUNTRY OTHER
THAN COUNTRY OF SLAUGHTER.
(For shipment of meat and meat food products to United States not continuous from country
of slaughter.)
Place Date 191
(City.) (Country.)
I hereby certify that the meat and meat food products herein described were originally
shipped from
(Country or countries of slaughter.)
and were accompanied by certificate (or certificates), signed by the official (or officials) of
the national government (or governments) of
(Name of country or countries of origin.)
showing that the meat and meat food products herein described were derived from cattle,
sheep, swine, or goats which received ante-mortem and post-mortem veterinary inspection at
the time of slaughter, and that such meat and meat food products were sound, healthful,
wholesome, and otherwise fit for human food, and had not been treated with, and did not
contain, any preservative, colouring matter, or other substance not permitted by the regulations
of the United States Secretary of Agriculture governing meat inspection filed with
said offical (or officials), and that said meat and meat food products had been handled only
in a sanitary manner in the country (or countries) in which the animals from which they
were derived were slaughtered.
I also hereby certify that the meat and meat food products herein described have not
been treated in this country (in which this certificate is issued) with any preservative,
colouring matter, or other substance not permitted by the regulations of the United States
Secretary of Agriculture governing meat inspection, filed with me, and that the said meat
ar.d meat food products have been inspected in this country (in which this certificate is
issued) and not found to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human
food, and that said meat and meat food products have been handled only in a sanitary
manner in this country.
Kind of product. Number of pieces or packages. Weight.
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