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Paragraph 2

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Where evidence of tuberculosis is found, an official veterinary surgeon or inspector shall –

(a)

split the carcase, examine the vertebrae, ribs, sternum, spinal cord and brain, incise the kidneys;

(b)

examine in detail such of the following lymph nodes as he has not already so examined: superficial inguinal, prescapular, prepectoral, presternal, suprasternal, xiphoid, subdorsal, intercostal, iliac, sublumbar, ischiatic, precrural and popliteal, the lymph nodes least likely in the particular case to show evidence of infection being examined first.