[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: 9CFR320.7]



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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. 320.7  Reports by consignees of allegedly adulterated or misbranded 

products; sale or transportation as violations.



    Whenever the consignee of any product which bears an official 

inspection legend refuses to accept delivery of such product on the 

grounds that it is adulterated or misbranded, the consignee shall notify 

the Inspector in Charge, Meat and Poultry Inspection Program, Food 

Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, of the 

kind, quantity, source, and present location of the product and the 

respects in which it is alleged to be adulterated or misbranded, and it 

will be a violation of the Act for any person to sell or transport, or 

offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in 

commerce, any such product which is capable of use as human food and is 

adulterated or misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, 

offer, or receipt: Provided, however, That any such allegedly 

adulterated or misbranded product may be transported to the official 

establishment from which it had been transported, in accordance with 

Sec. 325.10 of this subchapter.