Commentary for Zevachim 179:2

מאי לאו בדהדר עיילינהו פליגי ובהא פליגי דמר סבר מיפסלי ביוצא ומר סבר לא מיפסלי ביוצא

or uncleanness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e.,if an unclean person eats them, he is not liable. For only what is permitted to clean persons involves liability on account of personal defilement, but what is not so permitted does not involve liability. Now emurim (which are burnt on the altar, and so not permitted even to clean persons) are nevertheless included, as is deduced by Scriptural exegesis, but only on a similar basis to flesh: as flesh involves culpability only after sprinkling, so the emurim. Sprinkling, however, is ineffective in respect of these emurim, and therefore they do not involve culpability.');">³</span> R'Akiba maintains: They involve trespass, and one is culpable on their account for piggul, nothar, and defilement.

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