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9 CFR §555.10

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The provisions of this part do not apply:
  1. (a)To specimens of product sent to or by the Department of Agriculture or divisions thereof in Washington, DC, or elsewhere, for laboratory examination, exhibition purposes, or other official use;
  2. (b)To material released for educational, research, and other nonfood purposes, as prescribed in § 540.2 of this subchapter;
  3. (c)To tissues for use in preparing pharmaceutical, organotherapeutic, or technical products and not used for human food, as described in § 540.2 of this subchapter;
  4. (d)To material or specimens of product for laboratory examination, research, or other nonhuman food purposes, when authorized by the Administrator, and under conditions prescribed by him in specific cases; and
  5. (e)To articles that are naturally inedible by humans.