---
kind: "unit"
title: "9"
title_heading: "Animals and Animal Products"
key: "chIII/subchA/part309"
level: "part"
label: "Part 309"
heading: "Ante-Mortem Inspection"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/9/chIII-subchA-part309"
sections_count: 19
---

# Part 309 — Ante-Mortem Inspection

Title 9 C.F.R. — Animals and Animal Products › Chapter III — Food Safety and Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture › Subchapter A — Agency Organization and Terminology; Mandatory Meat and Poultry Products Inspection and Voluntary Inspection and Certification

## Sections

- [§309.1. Ante-mortem inspection on premises of official establishments.](/cfr/9/309.1.md)
- [§309.2. Livestock suspected of being diseased or affected with certain conditions; identifying suspects; disposition on post-mortem inspection or otherwise.](/cfr/9/309.2.md)
- [§309.3. Dead, dying, disabled, or diseased and similar livestock.](/cfr/9/309.3.md)
- [§309.4. Livestock showing symptoms of certain metabolic, toxic, nervous, or circulatory disturbances, nutritional imbalances, or infectious or parasitic diseases.](/cfr/9/309.4.md)
- [§309.5. Swine; disposal because of hog cholera.](/cfr/9/309.5.md)
- [§309.6. Epithelioma of the eye.](/cfr/9/309.6.md)
- [§309.7. Livestock affected with anthrax; cleaning and disinfection of infected livestock pens and driveways.](/cfr/9/309.7.md)
- [§309.8. Cattle affected with anasarca and generalized edema.](/cfr/9/309.8.md)
- [§309.9. Swine erysipelas.](/cfr/9/309.9.md)
- [§309.10. Onset of parturition.](/cfr/9/309.10.md)
- [§309.11. Vaccine livestock.](/cfr/9/309.11.md)
- [§309.12. Emergency slaughter; inspection prior to.](/cfr/9/309.12.md)
- [§309.13. Disposition of condemned livestock.](/cfr/9/309.13.md)
- [§309.14. Brucellosis-reactor goats.](/cfr/9/309.14.md)
- [§309.15. Vesicular diseases.](/cfr/9/309.15.md)
- [§309.16. Livestock suspected of having biological residues.](/cfr/9/309.16.md)
- [§309.17. Livestock used for research.](/cfr/9/309.17.md)
- [§309.18. Official marks and devices for purposes of ante-mortem inspection.](/cfr/9/309.18.md)
- [§309.19. Market hog segregation under the new swine slaughter inspection system.](/cfr/9/309.19.md)