[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR300.6]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 300_AGENCY MISSION AND ORGANIZATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 300.6  Access to establishments and other places of business.

    (a) General. Upon presentation of credentials--
    (1) Persons subject to provisions of the FMIA or the PPIA must 
afford representatives of the Secretary access to establishments that 
slaughter or otherwise prepare livestock products or process poultry 
products and to other places of business subject to regulation 
thereunder; and
    (2) Persons subject to provisions of the EPIA must afford 
representatives of the Secretary access as specified in part 590 of this 
chapter.
    (b) Meat and poultry establishments and related industries. (1) At 
all times, by day or night, whether the establishment is being operated 
or not, inspection program employees must have access to the premises 
and to every part of an establishment that slaughters livestock or 
otherwise prepares meat products or slaughters poultry or otherwise 
processes poultry products that are subject to inspection for the 
purpose of conducting an inspection or performing any other inspection 
program duty. The numbered official badge of an inspection program 
employee is sufficient identification to entitle him or her to 
admittance to all parts of such an establishment and its premises.
    (2) At all ordinary business hours, upon presentation of credentials 
by a representative of the Secretary, any person (including any firm or 
corporation or other business unit) subject to recordkeeping 
requirements under section 202 of the FMIA or section 11(b) of the PPIA 
must permit such representative to enter his or her place of business to 
examine the facilities and inventory and to examine and copy the records 
specified in Sec. 320.1 and Sec. 381.175, respectively, of this 
chapter and, upon payment of the fair market value

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therefor, take reasonable samples of the inventory.

[63 FR 72354, Dec. 31, 1998, as amended at 69 FR 254, Jan. 5, 2004]