---
kind: "section"
citation: "9 C.F.R. § 555.10"
title: "9"
number: "555.10"
heading: "Provisions inapplicable to specimens for laboratory examination, etc., or to naturally inedible articles."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/9/555.10"
---

# §555.10. Provisions inapplicable to specimens for laboratory examination, etc., or to naturally inedible articles.


The provisions of this part do not apply:

- (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;
- (b) To material released for educational, research, and other nonfood purposes, as prescribed in [§ 540.2](/cfr/9/540.2.md) of this subchapter;
- (c) To tissues for use in preparing pharmaceutical, organotherapeutic, or technical products and not used for human food, as described in [§ 540.2](/cfr/9/540.2.md) of this subchapter;
- (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
- (e) **To articles that are naturally inedible by humans.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450; 21 U.S.C. 601-602, 606-622, 624-695; 7 CFR 2.7, 2.18, 2.53.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 75616, Dec. 2, 2015, unless otherwise noted.