[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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]