[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: 9CFR327.21]

[Page 351]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 327_IMPORTED PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 327.21  Inspection procedures for chilled fresh and frozen 
boneless manufacturing meat.

    (a) Definitions; sampling; standards. (1) Frozen boneless 
manufacturing meat is meat, frozen in the fresh state from cattle, 
sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines that has all bone 
removed and is cut into pieces or trimmings, frozen into a compact block 
of any shape and suitable for slicing or chopping in the manufacturing 
of meat food products. As used in this section, the term ``frozen'' 
includes ``chilled fresh,'' and ``lot'' means any amount of frozen 
boneless manufacturing meat of one species, similarly packaged, shipped 
from one establishment, and offered for import inspection under one or 
more foreign inspection certificates.
    (2) Imported frozen boneless manufacturing meat shall be sampled as 
required by Sec. 327.6(a) of this part, and the samples defrosted for 
inspection. The Program import inspector, or in the case of Canadian 
product subject to procedures described in Sec. 327.5(d)(1), the 
Canadian representative will select from a lot the appropriate number of 
cartons specified by the table of sampling plans. The total sample for 
inspection will consist of the necessary number of 12-pound units drawn 
from these cartons. The 12-pound units selected will be completely 
defrosted and examined.
    (b) Lots refused entry. Reinspection (including resampling) will be 
provided for any lot of frozen boneless manufacturing meat which was 
refused entry under this section on the basis of the original evaluation 
of the sample thereof, upon appeal from the inspector's initial 
decision.

[35 FR 15610, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 49 FR 36819, Sept. 20, 1984; 
51 FR 44901, Dec. 15, 1986; 54 FR 275, Jan. 5, 1989; 57 FR 27906, June 
23, 1992]