21 U.S.C. § 455
For the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in commerce of, or the burdening of commerce by, any poultry product which is capable of use as human food and is adulterated, the Secretary shall, where and to the extent considered by him necessary, cause to be made by inspectors ante mortem inspection of poultry in each official establishment processing poultry or poultry products for commerce or otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter.
The Secretary, whenever processing operations are being conducted, shall cause to be made by inspectors post mortem inspection of the carcass of each bird processed, and at any time such quarantine, segregation, and reinspection as he deems necessary of poultry and poultry products capable of use as human food in each official establishment processing such poultry or poultry products for commerce or otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter.
All poultry carcasses and parts thereof and other poultry products found to be adulterated shall be condemned and shall, if no appeal be taken from such determination of condemnation, be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector: Provided, That carcasses, parts, and products, which may by reprocessing be made not adulterated, need not be so condemned and destroyed if so reprocessed under the supervision of an inspector and thereafter found to be not adulterated. If an appeal be taken from such determination, the carcasses, parts, or products shall be appropriately marked and segregated pending completion of an appeal inspection, which appeal shall be at the cost of the appellant if the Secretary determines that the appeal is frivolous. If the determination of condemnation is sustained the carcasses, parts, and products shall be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector.
21 U.S.C. § 455
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS1968-Par. (a). Pub. L. 90-492, §6(a), substituted "of, or the burdening of commerce by, any poultry product which is capable of use as human food and is adulterated," for "or a designated major consuming area of any poultry product which is unwholesome or adulterated," "each official establishment" for "any official establishment", and "otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter" for "in, or for marketing in a designated city or area".Par. (b). Pub. L. 90-492, §6(b), substituted "segregation, and reinspection" for "segregation, reinspection", and "otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter" for "in, or for marketing in a designated city or area", and inserted "capable of use as human food" after "necessary of poultry and poultry products".Par. (c). Pub. L. 90-492, §6(c), inserted "other" before "poultry products", and substituted "to be adulterated" for "to be unwholesome or adulterated", "made not adulterated" for "made not unwholesome and not adulterated", and "to be not adulterated" for "to be not unwholesome and not adulterated".
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1968 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 90-492 effective Aug. 18, 1968, see section 20 of Pub. L. 90-492 set out as a note under section 451 of this title.
APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER REQUIREMENTS TO BIRDS OF THE ORDER RATITAE Pub. L. 106-387, §1(a) [title VII, §752], Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A-41, provided that: "Effective 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 28, 2000] and continuing for the remainder of fiscal year 2001 and each subsequent fiscal year, establishments in the United States that slaughter or process birds of the order Ratitae, such as ostriches, emus and rheas, and squab, for distribution in commerce as human food shall be subject to the ante mortem and post mortem inspection, reinspection, and sanitation requirements of the Poultry Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) rather than the voluntary poultry inspection program of the Department of Agriculture under section 203 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ( 7 U.S.C. 1622 )."
- Secretary
- The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture or his delegate.
- United States
- The term "United States" means the States, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States.
- commerce
- The term "commerce" means commerce between any State, any territory, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or within any territory not organized with a legislative body, or the District of Columbia.
- inspector
- The term "inspector" means: (1) an employee or official of the United States Government authorized by the Secretary to inspect poultry and poultry products under the authority of this chapter, or (2) any employee or official of the government of any State or territory or the District of Columbia authorized by the Secretary to inspect poultry and poultry products under authority of this chapter, under an agreement entered into between the Secretary and the appropriate State or other agency.
- official establishment
- The term "official establishment" means any establishment as determined by the Secretary at which inspection of the slaughter of poultry, or the processing of poultry products, is maintained under the authority of this chapter.
- poultry product
- The term "poultry product" means any poultry carcass, or part thereof; or any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain poultry ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and which are exempted by the Secretary from definition as a poultry product under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that the poultry ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as poultry products.
- poultry
- The term "poultry" means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead.
- processed
- The term "processed" means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed.