21 U.S.C. § 456
Each official establishment slaughtering poultry or processing poultry products for commerce or otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter shall have such premises, facilities, and equipment, and be operated in accordance with such sanitary practices, as are required by regulations promulgated by the Secretary for the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in commerce or burdensome effect upon commerce, of poultry products which are adulterated.
The Secretary shall refuse to render inspection to any establishment whose premises, facilities, or equipment, or the operation thereof, fail to meet the requirements of this section.
21 U.S.C. § 456
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS1968-Par. (a). Pub. L. 90-492 substituted "otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter" for "in or for marketing in a designated major consuming area", "burdensome effect upon commerce" for "in a designated major consuming area", and "which are adulterated" for "which are unwholesome or 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.
- Secretary
- The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture or his delegate.
- 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.
- 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
- The term "poultry" means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead.