[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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[CITE: 9CFR320.3]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 320_RECORDS, REGISTRATION, AND REPORTS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 320.3  Record retention period.



    (a) Every record required to be maintained under this part shall be 

retained for a period of 2 years after December 31 of the year in which 

the transaction to which the record relates has occurred and for such 

further period as the Administrator may require for purposes of any 

investigation or litigation under the Act, by written notice to the 

person required to keep such records under this part.

    (b) Records of canning as required in subpart G of this subchapter 

A, 9 CFR chapter III, shall be retained as required in Sec. 318.307(e); 

except that records required by Sec. 318.302 (b) and (c) shall be 

retained as required by those sections.



[35 FR 15603, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 51 FR 45633, Dec. 19, 1986]