Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 28:22

ולפני זריקה במאי פליגי אמר רב פפא בציץ מרצה על אכילות קא מיפלגי

but [where it became unclean] after the sprinkling, all agree that the unclean one is treated as unclean and the clean one may be eaten. And [in the case where one became unclean] before the sprinkling, on what principle do they differ? - R'Papa said, They differ as to whether the [High Priest's] plate renders [the offering] acceptable [where] the eatable portions [had become unclean].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The High Priest's plate worn on the forehead had a propitiatory effect (v. Ex. XXVIII, 36-38) , and if a part of the sacrifice became unclean the offering was nevertheless acceptable, and the sprinkling of the blood was deemed to he a valid sprinkling. The Rabbis and R. Judah differ as to what portions of the sacrifice are comprehended within the propitiating effect of the plate, whether it includes even those portions usually eaten ,ukhft ihkug by the priests (Heb.) , or only those portions offered upon the altar (Heb.) , as the blood and the fat, and the frankincense.');">²⁶</span> [

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