[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: 9CFR320.1]

[Page 325-326]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 320_RECORDS, REGISTRATION, AND REPORTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 320.1  Records required to be kept.

    (a) Every person (including every firm or corporation) within any of 
the classes specified in paragraph (a) (1), (2), or (3) of this section 
is required by the Act to keep records which will fully and correctly 
disclose all transactions involved in his or its business subject to the 
Act:
    (1) Any person that engages, for commerce, in the business of 
slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other 
equines, or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, 
or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human 
food or animal food;
    (2) Any person that engages in the business of buying or selling (as 
a meat broker, wholesaler, or otherwise), or transporting in commerce, 
or storing in or for commerce, or importing, any carcasses, or parts or 
products of carcasses, of any such animals;
    (3) Any person that engages in business, in or for commerce, as a 
renderer, or engages in the business of buying, selling, or transporting 
in commerce, or importing, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased 
cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts 
of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by 
slaughter.
    (b) The required records are:
    (1) Records, such as bills of sale, invoices, bills of lading, and 
receiving and shipping papers, giving the following information with 
respect to each transaction in which any livestock or carcass, part 
thereof, meat or meat food product is purchased, sold, shipped, 
received, transported, or otherwise handled by said person in connection 
with any business subject to the Act:
    (i) The name or description of the livestock or article;
    (ii) The net weight of the livestock or article;
    (iii) The number of outside containers (if any);
    (iv) The name and address of the buyer of livestock or article sold 
by such person, and the name and address of the seller of livestock or 
articles purchased by such person;
    (v) The name and address of the consignee or receiver (if other than 
the buyer);
    (vi) The method of shipment;
    (vii) The date of shipment; and
    (viii) The name and address of the carrier.
    (ix) In the case of a person belonging to the class specified in 
paragraph (a)(1), and engaged, for commerce, in the business of 
slaughtering any swine for use as human or animal food, the name and 
address (including the city and state, or the township, county, and 
state) of each person from whom the person belonging to the class so 
specified purchased or otherwise obtained each swine, and the telephone 
number, if available, of the person from whom the swine were purchased 
or otherwise obtained, and all serial numbers and other approved means 
of identification appearing on all test swine selected at antemortem 
inspection by FSIS representatives for residue testing.
    (2) Shipper's certificates and permits required to be kept by 
shippers and carriers of articles under part 325 of this subchapter.
    (3) A record of seal numbers required to be kept by consignees of 
inedible products shipped under unofficial seals under Sec. 325.11(b) 
or (e) of this subchapter, and a record of new consignees of inedible 
products diverted under Sec. 325.11(e) of this subchapter.

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    (4) [Reserved]
    (5) Guaranties provided by suppliers of packaging materials under 
Sec. 317.20.
    (6) Records of canning as required by subpart G of this subchapter 
A, 9 CFR chapter III.
    (7) Sample results and calculation results as required by processing 
procedures to destroy trichinae in Sec. 318.10(c)(3)(iv) (Methods 5 and 
6).
    (8) Records of nutrition labeling as required by subpart B, part 
317, of this subchapter.
    (9) Records as required in Sec. 318.23(b) and (c).
    (10) Records documenting the development, implementation, and 
maintenance of procedures for the control of the production process 
using advanced meat/bone separation machinery and meat recovery systems 
as required by Sec. 318.24 of this subchapter.
    (11) Records of all labeling, along with the product formulation and 
processing procedures, as prescribed in Sec. 317.4 and Sec. 317.5.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0583-0015)

[35 FR 15603, Oct. 3, 1970]

    Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting Sec. 
320.1, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the 
Finding Aids section of the printed volume and on GPO Access.