Reference for Chullin 145:23

חסורי מחסרא והכי קתני אמר להן ר' מאיר

Then it should also render it permitted to be eaten! They replied: The case of a trefah [animal] proves otherwise, for the slaughtering renders it clean, so that it be not nebelah, an yet does not render it permitted to be eaten.

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