[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 9CFR307.2]



[Page 102-103]

 

                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 307_FACILITIES FOR INSPECTION--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 307.2  Other facilities and conditions to be provided by the establishment.



    When required by the circuit supervisor, the following facilities 

and conditions, and such others as may be found to be essential to 

efficient conduct of inspection and maintenance of sanitary conditions, 

shall be provided by each official establishment:

    (a) Satisfactory pens, equipment, and assistants for conducting 

ante-mortem inspection and for separating, marking and holding apart 

from passed livestock those marked ``U.S. suspect'' and those marked 

``U.S. condemned'' (pens, alleys, and runways shall be paved, drained, 

and supplied with adequate hose connections for cleanup purposes);

    (b) Sufficient light to be adequate for proper conduct of 

inspection;

    (c) Racks, receptacles, or other suitable devices for retaining such 

parts as the head, tongue, tail, thymus gland, and viscera, and all 

parts and blood to be used in the preparation of meat food products or 

medical products, until after the post-mortem examination is completed, 

in order that they may be identified in case of condemnation of the 

carcass; equipment, trucks, and receptacles for the handling of viscera 

of slaughtered animals so as to prevent contact with the floor; and 

trucks, racks, marked receptacles, tables, and other necessary equipment 

for the separate and sanitary handling of carcasses or parts passed for 

cooking;

    (d) Tables, benches, and other equipment on which inspection is to 

be performed, of such design, material, and construction as to enable 

Program employees to conduct their inspection in a ready, efficient and 

clean manner;

    (e) Watertight metal trucks or receptacles for holding and handling 

diseased carcasses and parts, so constructed as to be readily cleaned; 

such trucks or receptacles to be marked in a conspicuous manner with the 

phrase ``U.S. condemned'' in letters not less than 2 inches high, and, 

when required by the circuit supervisor, to be equipped with facilities 

for locking or sealing;

    (f) Adequate arrangements, including liquid soap and cleansers, for 

cleansing and disinfecting hands, for sterilizing all implements used in 

dressing diseased carcasses, floors, and such other articles and places 

as may be contaminated by diseased carcasses or otherwise;

    (g) In establishments in which slaughtering is done, rooms, 

compartments, or specially prepared open places, to be known as ``final 

inspection places,'' at which the final inspection of retained carcasses 

may be conducted (competent assistants for handling retained carcasses 

and parts shall be provided by the establishment; final inspection 

places shall be adequate in size and their rail arrangement and other 

equipment shall be sufficient to prevent carcasses and parts passed for 

food or cooking, from being contaminated by contact with condemned 

carcasses or parts; they shall be equipped with hot water, lavatory, 

sterilizer, tables, and other equipment required for ready, efficient, 

and sanitary conduct of the inspection; the floors shall be of such 

construction as to facilitate the maintenance of sanitary conditions and 

shall have proper drainage connections, and when the final inspection 

place is part of a larger floor, it shall be separated from the rest of 

the floor by a curb, railing, or otherwise);

    (h) Retention rooms, cages, or other compartments, and receptacles 

in which carcasses and product may be held for further inspection (these 

shall be in such number and in such locations as the needs of the 

inspection in the establishment may require; they shall be equipped for 

secure locking or sealing and shall be held under locks or official 

seals furnished by the Department; the keys of such locks shall not 

leave the custody of Program employees. Every such room, compartment, or 

receptacle shall be marked conspicuously with the phrase ``U.S. 

retained''



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in letters not less than 2 inches high; rooms or compartments for these 

purposes shall be secure and susceptible of being kept clean, including 

a sanitary disposal of the floor liquids; establishment employees shall 

not enter any retention rooms or compartments or open any retention 

receptacles unless authorized by Program employees);

    (i) Adequate facilities, including denaturing materials, for the 

proper disposal of condemned articles in accordance with the regulations 

in this subchapter (tanks or other rendering equipment which, under the 

regulations in this subchapter, must be sealed, shall be properly 

equipped for sealing as specified by the regulations in part 314 of this 

subchapter or by the circuit supervisor in specific cases);

    (j) Docks and receiving rooms, to be designated by the operator of 

the official establishment, with the circuit supervisor, for the receipt 

and inspection of all products as provided in Sec. 318.3 of this 

subchapter.

    (k) Suitable lockers in which brands bearing the official inspection 

legend and other official devices (excluding labels) and official 

certificates shall be kept when not in use (all such lockers shall be 

equipped for sealing or locking with locks or seals to be supplied by 

the Department; the keys of such locks shall not leave the custody of 

Program employees);

    (l) Sanitary facilities and accommodations as prescribed by Sec. 

416.2(c), (d), (e), (f), and (h) of this chapter.

    (m) In addition to any facilities required to accomplish sanitary 

dressing procedures, the following inspection station facilities for 

cattle and swine slaughter lines described in Sec. 310.1(b) of this 

subchapter are required:

    (1) An inspection station consisting of 5 feet of unobstructed line 

space for each head or carcass inspector and, for viscera table kills, 8 

feet for each viscera inspector on the inspector's side of the table.

    (2) A minimum of 50 foot candles of shadow-free lighting at the 

inspection surfaces of the head, viscera, and carcass.

    (3) A handwash lavatory (other than one which is hand operated), 

furnished with soap, towels, and hot and cold water, and located 

adjacent to the inspector's work area. In addition, for each head and 

viscera inspector on cattle slaughter lines, and each head inspector on 

swine slaughter lines, a sterilizer located adjacent to the inspector's 

work area.

    (4) For mechanized operations, a line control switch located 

adjacent to each inspection station.

    (5) Facilities to position tally sheets or other recording devices, 

such as digital counters, and facilities to contain condemned brands.

    (6) For swine slaughter lines requiring three or more inspectors, 

and for those one- and two-inspector configurations where the 

establishment installs a mirror: At the carcass inspection station one 

glass or plastic, distortion-free mirror, at least 5 feet x 5 feet, 

mounted far enough away from the vertical axis of the moving line to 

allow the carcass to be turned, but not over 3 feet away, and so mounted 

that any inspector standing at the carcass inspection station can 

readily view the back of the carcass.



[35 FR 15560, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 47 FR 33676, Aug. 4, 1982; 50 

FR 19902, May 13, 1985; 64 FR 56415, Oct. 20, 1999]