[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: 9CFR381.65]



[Page 450-451]

 

                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

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

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 381_POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart I_Operating Procedures

 

Sec. 381.65  Operations and procedures, generally.





    (a) Operations and procedures involving the processing, other 

handling, or storing of any poultry product must be strictly in accord 

with clean and sanitary practices and must be conducted in a manner that 

will result in sanitary processing, proper inspection, and the 

production of poultry and poultry products that are not adulterated.

    (b) Poultry must be slaughtered in accordance with good commercial 

practices in a manner that will result in thorough bleeding of the 

carcasses and ensure that breathing has stopped prior



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to scalding. Blood from the killing operation must be confined to a 

relatively small area.

    (c) When thawing frozen ready-to-cook poultry in water, the 

establishment must use methods that prevent adulteration of, or net 

weight gain by, the poultry.

    (d) The water used in washing the poultry must be permitted to drain 

freely from the body cavity.

    (e) Poultry carcasses contaminated with visible fecal material shall 

be prevented from entering the chilling tank.

    (f) Detached ova may be collected for human food and handled only in 

accordance with 9 CFR 590.44 and may leave the establishment only to be 

moved to an official egg product processing plant for processing. Ova 

from condemned carcasses must be condemned and treated as required in 

Sec. 381.95.



[66 FR 1771, Jan. 9, 2001; 66 FR 19714, Apr. 17, 2001]