[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: 9CFR317.1]



[Page 161-162]

 

                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 317_LABELING, MARKING DEVICES, AND CONTAINERS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 317.1  Labels required; supervision by Program employee.





    (a) When, in an official establishment, any inspected and passed 

product is placed in any receptacle or covering constituting an 

immediate container, there shall be affixed to such container a label as 

described in Sec. 317.2 except that the following do not have to bear 

such a label.

    (1) Wrappings of dressed carcasses and primal parts in an 

unprocessed state, bearing the official inspection legend, if such 

wrappings are intended solely to protect the product against soiling or 

excessive drying during transportation or storage, and the wrappings 

bear no information except company brand names, trade marks, or code 

numbers which do not include any information required by Sec. 317.2;

    (2) Uncolored transparent coverings, such as cellophane, which bear 

no written, printed, or graphic matter and which enclose any unpackaged 

or packaged product bearing all markings required by part 316 of this 

subchapter which are clearly legible through such coverings;



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    (3) Animal and transparent artificial casings bearing only the 

markings required by part 316 of this subchapter;

    (4) Stockinettes used as ``operative devices'', such as those 

applied to cured meats in preparation for smoking, whether or not such 

stockinettes are removed following completion of the operations for 

which they were applied;

    (5) Containers such as boil-in bags, trays of frozen dinners, and 

pie pans which bear no information except company brand names, 

trademarks, code numbers, directions for preparation and serving 

suggestions, and which are enclosed in a consumer size container that 

bears a label as described in Sec. 317.2;

    (6) Containers of products passed for cooking or refrigeration and 

moved from an official establishment under Sec. 311.1 of this 

subchapter.

    (b) Folders and similar coverings made of paper or similar 

materials, whether or not they completely enclose the product and which 

bear any written, printed, or graphic matter, shall bear all features 

required on a label for an immediate container.

    (c) No covering or other container which bears or is to bear a label 

shall be filled, in whole or in part, except with product which has been 

inspected and passed in compliance with the regulations in this 

subchapter, which is not adulterated and which is strictly in accordance 

with the statements on the label. No such container shall be filled, in 

whole or in part, and no label shall be affixed thereto, except under 

supervision of a Program employee.