[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR317.1]

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                  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.