[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2, Parts 200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR500.2]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 500--RULES OF PRACTICE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 500.2  Regulatory control action.

    (a) FSIS may take a regulatory control action because of:
    (1) Insanitary conditions or practices;
    (2) Product adulteration or misbranding;
    (3) Conditions that preclude FSIS from determining that product is 
not adulterated or misbranded; or
    (4) Inhumane handling or slaughtering of livestock.
    (b) If a regulatory control action is taken, the program employee 
will immediately notify the establishment orally or in writing of the 
action and the basis for the action.
    (c) An establishment may appeal a regulatory control action, as 
provided in Secs. 306.5 and 381.35 of this chapter.