[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: 9CFR500.3]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 500_RULES OF PRACTICE--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 500.3  Withholding action or suspension without prior notification.



    (a) FSIS may take a withholding action or impose a suspension 

without providing the establishment prior notification because:

    (1) The establishment produced and shipped adulterated or misbranded 

product as defined in 21 U.S.C. 453 or 21 U.S.C. 602;

    (2) The establishment does not have a HACCP plan as specified in 

Sec. 417.2 of this chapter;

    (3) The establishment does not have Sanitation Standard Operating 

Procedures as specified in Sec. Sec. 416.11-416.12 of this chapter;

    (4) Sanitary conditions are such that products in the establishment 

are or would be rendered adulterated;

    (5) The establishment violated the terms of a regulatory control 

action;

    (6) An establishment operator, officer, employee, or agent 

assaulted, threatened to assault, intimidated, or interfered with an 

FSIS employee; or

    (7) The establishment did not destroy a condemned meat or poultry 

carcass, or part or product thereof, in accordance with part 314 or part 

381, subpart L, of this chapter within three days of notification.

    (b) FSIS also may impose a suspension without providing the 

establishment prior notification because the establishment is handling 

or slaughtering animals inhumanely.