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If any meat, flesh, vegetable or other article of a perishable nature be seized under section 543 and the same is, in the opinion of the Commissioner diseased, unsound, unwholesome or unfit for human consumption, as the case may be, the Commissioner shall cause the same to be forthwith destroyed in such manner as to prevent its being again exposed for sale or used for human consumption and the expenses thereof shall be paid by the person in whose possession such article was at the time of its seizure.