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תא שמע, רבי שמעון אומר: יש נותר שמועלין בו, ויש נותר שאין מועלין בו.
The Talmud cites another source that might resolve the issue: Come and hear a baraita that can provide a proof with regard to the meaning of R' Yehoshua’s statement about a period of fitness to the priests: R' Shimon says that there is a case of notar, when the blood was left overnight and was rendered unfit, where one is liable for misusing the meat of the offering, and there is also a case of notar where one is not liable for misusing it.
כיצד? לן לפני זריקה – מועלין, לאחר זריקה – אין מועלין.
The baraita elaborates: How so? If the blood was left over and someone consumed the meat before the sprinkling of the blood, he is liable for misusing consecrated property. But if it was consumed after the sprinkling of the blood, he is not liable for misusing consecrated property, as the sprinkling removes the meat from being subject to the halakhot of misuse.
The Talmud notes: In any event, R' Shimon teaches that if one consumes the meat before the leftover blood was sprinkled, he is liable for misusing it. Is this not referring to a case where there was time left in the day to sprinkle the blood that had already been collected in the service vessel, and therefore, if he had desired, he could have sprinkled the blood? Nevertheless, the offering is subject to the halakhot of misuse. This indicates that merely collecting the blood in the service vessel alone, without actually sprinkling it, does not remove the offering from being subject to the halakhot of misuse.