[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: 9CFR381.65]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 381--POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart I--Operating Procedures
 
Sec. 381.65  Operations and procedures, generally.


    (a) Operations and procedures involving the processing, other 
handling, or storing of any poultry product must be

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strictly in accord with clean and sanitary practices and must be 
conducted in a manner that will result in sanitary processing, proper 
inspection, and the production of poultry and poultry products that are 
not adulterated.
    (b) Poultry must be slaughtered in accordance with good commercial 
practices in a manner that will result in thorough bleeding of the 
carcasses and ensure that breathing has stopped prior to scalding. Blood 
from the killing operation must be confined to a relatively small area.
    (c) When thawing frozen ready-to-cook poultry in water, the 
establishment must use methods that prevent adulteration of, or net 
weight gain by, the poultry.
    (d) The water used in washing the poultry must be permitted to drain 
freely from the body cavity.
    (e) Poultry carcasses contaminated with visible fecal material shall 
be prevented from entering the chilling tank.
    (f) Detached ova may be collected for human food and handled only in 
accordance with 9 CFR 590.44 and may leave the establishment only to be 
moved to an official egg product processing plant for processing. Ova 
from condemned carcasses must be condemned and treated as required in 
Sec. 381.95.

[66 FR 1771, Jan. 9, 2001; 66 FR 19714, Apr. 17, 2001]