CHAPTER III - FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE (MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBCHAPTER A-MANDATORY MEAT INSPECTION PART 301-DEFINITIONS 305.5 Withdrawal of inspection; statement of policy. 305.6 Reports of violations. Sec. PART 306-ASSIGNMENT AND AUTHORITIES OF PROGRAM EMPLOYEES 306.1 Designation of circuit supervisor and assistants. 306.2 Program employees to have access to establishments. 306.3 Badge as identification of inspectors. 306.4 Assignment of Program employees where members of family employed; soliciting employment; procuring product from official establishments. 306.5 Appeals. Sec. PART 307-FACILITIES FOR INSPECTION 307.1 Facilities for Program employees. 307.2 Other facilities and conditions to be provided by establishment sanitary condition. 307.3 Inspectors to furnish implements and maintain hands and implements in sanitary condition. 307.4 Schedule of operations. 307.5 Overtime and holiday inspection service. 307.6 Basis of billing for overtime and holiday services. 307.7 Safety requirements for electrical stimulating (EST) equipment. PART 308-SANITATION Sec. 308.1 Examination and specifications for equipment and sanitation prior to granting inspection. 308.2 Drawings and specifications to be furnished in advance of construction. 308.3 Establishments; sanitary condition; requirements. 308.4 Sanitary facilities and accommodations; specific requirements. 308.5 Equipment and utensils to be easily cleaned; those for inedible products to be so marked; evaluation of equipment and utensils. 308.6 Scabbards for knives. 308.7 Rooms, compartments, etc., to be clean and sanitary. 308.8 Operations, procedures, rooms, clothing, utensils, etc., to be clean and sanitary. 308.9 Protective handling of products. 308.10 Slack barrels and similar containers and means of conveyance used for product; paper in contact with product. 308.11 Burlap wrapping for meat. 308.12 Second-hand tubs, barrels, and other containers. 308.13 Inedible operating and storage rooms; outer premises, docks, driveways, approaches, pens, alleys, etc.; flybreeding material; other conditions. 308.14 Employment of diseased persons. 308.15 Tagging insanitary equipment, utensils, rooms or compartments. 308.16 Sanitation requirements for electrical stimulating (EST) equipment. PART 309-ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION Sec. 309.1 Ante-mortem inspection in pens of official establishments. 309.2 Livestock suspected of being diseased or affected with certain conditions; identifying suspects; disposition on post-mortem inspection or otherwise. 309.3 Dead, dying, disabled, or diseased and similar livestock. 309.4 Livestock showing symptoms of certain metabolic, toxic, nervous, or circulatory disturbances, nutritional imbalances, or infectious or parasitic diseases. 309.5 Swine; disposal because of hog cholera; swine injected with hog cholera virus. 309.6 Epithelioma of the eye. 309.7 Livestock affected with anthrax; cleaning and disinfection of infected livestock driveways. 309.8 Cattle affected with anasarca and generalized edema. 309.9 Swine erysipelas. 309.10 Onset of parturition. 309.11 Vaccine livestock. 309.12 Emergency slaughter; inspection prior to. 309.13 Disposition of condemned livestock. 309.14 Brucellosis-reactor goats. 309.15 Vesicular diseases. 309.16 Livestock suspected of having biological residues. 309.17 Livestock used for research. 309.18 Official marks and devices for purposes of ante-mortem inspection. PART 310-POST-MORTEM INSPECTION Sec. 310.1 Extent and time of post-mortem inspection, post-mortem inspection staffing standards. 310.2 Identification of carcass with certain severed parts thereof and with animal from which derived. 310.3 Carcasses and parts in certain instances to be retained. 310.4 Identification of carcasses and parts; tagging. 310.5 Condemned carcasses and parts to be so marked; tanking; separation. 310.6 Carcasses and parts passed for cooking; marking. iii 310.7 Removal of spermatic cords, pizzles and preputial diverticuli. 310.8 Passing and marking of carcasses and parts. 310.9 Anthrax; carcasses not to be eviscerated; disposition of affected carcasses; hides, hoofs, horns, hair, viscera and contents, and fat; handling of blood and scalding vat water; general cleanup and disinfection. 310.10 Carcasses with skin or hide on; cleaning before evisceration; removal of larvae of Hypodermae, external parasites and other pathological skin conditions. 310.11 Cleaning of hog carcasses before incising. 310.12 Sternum to be split; abdominal and thoracic viscera to be removed. 310.13 Carcasses or parts thereof not to be inflated; transferring caul or other fat. 310.14 Handling of bruised parts. 310.15 Disposition of thyroid glands and laryngeal muscle tissue. 310.16 Disposition of lungs. 310.17 Inspection of mammary glands. 310.18 Contamination of carcasses, organs, or other parts. 310.19 Inspection of kidneys. 310.20 Saving of blood from livestock as an edible product. 310.21 Carcasses suspected of containing sulfa and antibiotic residues; sampling frequency; disposition of affected carcasses and parts. 310.23 Identification of carcasses and parts of swine. 310.25 Contamination with microorganisms; pathogen reduction performance standards for Salmonella. iiia * * * * * * * * PART 304-APPLICATION FOR INSPECTION; GRANT OR REFUSAL OF INSPECTION AUTHORITY: 21 U.S.C. 601-695; 7 CFR 2.17, 2.55. § 304.1 Application for inspection. (a) Before the inspection is granted, each person conducting operations at an establishment subject to the Act, whether tenant, subsidiary, or landlord, shall make application therefor to the Administrator as provided for in this part. (b) Every application under this section shall be made on an official form furnished by the Program, available from any Regional Director identified in § 301.2(kkk) of this subchapter, and shall be completed to include all information requested. Trade names of the applicant for labeling purposes, shall be inserted in the appropriate blank in the application. Each applicant for inspection will be held responsible for compliance with the Act and the regulations in this subchapter if inspection is granted. Preparation of product and other operations at the establishment for which inspection is granted may be conducted only by the applicant named in the application. (c) In cases of change of ownership or location, a new application shall be made. § 304.2 Information to be furnished; grant or refusal of inspection. (a) FSIS shall give notice in writing to each applicant granted inspection and shall specify in the notice the establishment, including the limits of the establishment's premises, to which the grant pertains. (b) The Administrator is authorized to grant inspection upon his determination that the applicant and the establishment are eligible therefor and to refuse to grant inspection at any establishment if he determines that it does not meet the requirements of this part or the regulations in Parts 305, 307, and 308 of this subchapter or that the applicant has not received approval of labeling and containers to be used at the establishment as required by the regulations in Parts 316 and 317 of this subchapter. When inspection is refused for any reason, the applicant shall be informed of the action and the reasons therefor and afforded an opportunity to present his views. (c) Inspection may also be refused in accordance with section 401 of the Act and the applicable rules of practice. (d) (1) Any applicant for inspection at an establishment where the operations thereof may result in any discharge into the navigable waters in the United States is required by subsection 21(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (84 Stat. 91), to provide the Administrator with a certification as prescribed in said subsection that there is reasonable assurance that such activity will be conducted in a manner which will not violate the applicable water quality standards. No grant of inspection can be issued after April 3, 1970, (the date of enactment of the Water Quality Improvement Act), unless such certification has been obtained, or is waived because of failure or refusal of the State, interstate agency or the Secretary of the Interior to act on a request for certification within a reasonable period (which shall not exceed 1 year after receipt of such request). |