[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: 9CFR500.2]



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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. 500.2  Regulatory control action.



    (a) FSIS may take a regulatory control action because of:

    (1) Insanitary conditions or practices;

    (2) Product adulteration or misbranding;

    (3) Conditions that preclude FSIS from determining that product is 

not adulterated or misbranded; or

    (4) Inhumane handling or slaughtering of livestock.

    (b) If a regulatory control action is taken, the program employee 

will immediately notify the establishment orally or in writing of the 

action and the basis for the action.

    (c) An establishment may appeal a regulatory control action, as 

provided in Sec. Sec. 306.5 and 381.35 of this chapter.