[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR319.261]

[Page 307]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 319--DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS OF IDENTITY OR COMPOSITION--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart K--Luncheon Meat, Loaves and Jellied Products
 
Sec. 319.261  Meat loaf.

    ``Meat Loaf'' is a cooked meat food product in loaf form made from 
comminuted meat. Mechanically Separated (Species) may be used in 
accordance with Sec. 319.6. To facilitate chopping or mixing, water or 
ice may be used in an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the total 
ingredients used.

[35 FR 15597, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 43 FR 26425, June 20, 1978; 47 
FR 28257, June 29, 1982]