[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: 9CFR327.3]

[Page 342]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 327_IMPORTED PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 327.3  No product to be imported without compliance with 
applicable regulations.

    (a) No product offered for importation from any foreign country 
shall be admitted into the United States if it is adulterated or 
misbranded or does not comply with all the requirements of this 
subchapter that would apply to it if it were a domestic product.
    (b) No cooked or partially cooked meat or meat trimmings, either in 
separable pieces or molded into larger forms, shall be permitted entry 
except under the following conditions:
    (1) A complete procedure for preparing and handling the product in 
the foreign country and en route to the United States shall be submitted 
by the exporter or his authorized agent to the Administrator and 
determined by the Administrator to be adequate to assure that the 
product will not be adulterated or misbranded at the time of offer for 
entry.
    (2) A system acceptable to the Administrator (upon his determination 
that the system will provide a reliable indication of the kinds and 
numbers of microorganisms present) for the microbiological testing of 
the finished product shall be installed by the processor, the product is 
subjected to such testing, and the results thereof are furnished to the 
Administrator and are acceptable to him as showing that the product has 
been prepared and handled in a sanitary manner.
    (c) [Reserved]

[35 FR 15610, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 38 FR 29215, Oct. 23, 1973; 54 
FR 41048, Oct. 5, 1989; 56 FR 38335, Aug. 13, 1991; 57 FR 27906, June 
23, 1992]