[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2, Parts 200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 9CFR320.3]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 320--RECORDS, REGISTRATION, AND REPORTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 320.3  Record retention period.

    (a) Every record required to be maintained under this part shall be 
retained for a period of 2 years after December 31 of the year in which 
the transaction to which the record relates has occurred and for such 
further period as the Administrator may require for purposes of any 
investigation or litigation under the Act, by written notice to the 
person required to keep such records under this part.
    (b) Records of canning as required in subpart G of this subchapter 
A, 9 CFR chapter III, shall be retained as required in Sec. 318.307(e); 
except that records required by Sec. 318.302 (b) and (c) shall be 
retained as required by those sections.

[35 FR 15603, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 51 FR 45633, Dec. 19, 1986]