4. The meat shall be traded with only after permission has been received from the 
police authorities, and with due observance of the above measures ordered by the police. 
5. If the meat is not permitted to be used for other objects (cf. 3) it shall be taken away 
by the police in a harmless manner. 
§10. 
1. If inspection shows that the meat is only fit for human consumption under qualifi 
cation, the inspector shall first of all order its seizure, and then inform the owner of this 
decision and notify the police authorities. The police authorities decide under what 
measures of security the meat can be made fit for human consumption. 
2. Meat which on inspection has been recognized to be fit only under qualification 
shall not be traded with as food for human beings before it has been made fit for human 
consumption by the measures of security ordered by the police authorities. 
3. So far as the meat is not made fit in such manner, the provision of § 9, paragraphs 
3-5, apply. 
§ 11. 
1. The sale of meat made fit for human consumption (§ 10, paragraph 1) shall only 
take place provided that a mark is made which makes known this peculiarity. 
2. Meat dealers, inn, public house and restaurant keepers are allowed to sell and use 
such meat only with the permission of the police authorities ; this permission is always 
revocable. Such meat shall be delivered to the aforesaid persons only so far as such 
permission has been granted. 
In the business rooms of these persons it shall be made known by means of a clear poster 
placed in a conspicuous position that meat having the peculiarity mentioned in paragraph 1 
is being sold or used. 
3. Meat dealers shall not sell the meat in rooms in which fit meat (§ 8) is sold. 
§13. 
1. Meat arriving at the Customs is subject on importation to an official inspection with 
the co-operation of the customs authorities. An exception is made in the case of meat 
which can be shown to have been already inspected according to regulations and meat for 
direct transit. 
2. The importation of meat shall only take place through appointed custom-houses. 
The Federal Council shall appoint these houses as also those customs and taxation offices 
at which the inspection of meat shall take place. 
§15. 
The Federal Council is empowered to introduce prohibitions and restrictions of 
importation more extensive than those provided for in § § 12 and 13. 
S 16. 
The provisions of § 8, paragraph 1, and of §§ 9-11, also apply to meat entering the 
Customs. However, in place of the harmless removal of the meat, or in place of the 
measures of security to be ordered by the police, the re-exportation of the meat can be 
permitted, with corresponding measures of precaution, so far as health considerations are 
not opposed to this course. 
§18. 
1. In the case of horses the inspection (§1) shall be undertaken by approved 
veterinary surgeons. 
2. The sale of horseflesh, as also the importation of such meat into the Customs, must 
only take place if a mark is made which makes known in the German language the fact 
that the meat is horseflesh. 
3. Meat dealers, inn, public house and restaurant keepers are permitted to sell and use 
horseflesh only with the permission of the police authorities ; this permission is always 
revocable. Horseflesh shall be delivered to the aforesaid persons only in so far as such 
permission is granted them. In the business rooms of these persons it shall be made known 
by a clear poster in a conspicuous position that horseflesh is being sold or used. 
4. Meat dealers shall not sell horseflesh in rooms in which meat of other animals 
is sold. 
5. The Federal Council is empowered to order that the above provisions shall as far 
as suitable apply to donkeys, mules, dogs and other animals less often slaughtered. 
§19. 
1. The inspector shall mark on the meat the result of the inspection. Meat imported 
from abroad is in addition to be marked as such. 
2. The Federal Council decides on the nature of the mark. 
§§ 26-28 deal with penalties.