[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: 9CFR381.175]

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                  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 Q_Records, Registration, and Reports
 
Sec. 381.175  Records required to be kept.


    (a) Every person within any of the classes specified in paragraph 
(a) (1), (2), or (3) of this section is required by the Act to keep such 
records as are properly necessary for the effective enforcement of the 
Act:
    (1) Any person that engages in the business of slaughtering any 
poultry or processing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, 
or parts or products of carcasses, of any poultry, for commerce, for use 
as human food or animal food;
    (2) Any person that engages in the business of buying or selling (as 
a poultry products 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 poultry;
    (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 
poultry or parts of the carcasses of any poultry that died otherwise 
than by slaughter.
    (b) The required records are:
    (1) Records, such as bills of sale, invoices, bills of lading, and 
receiving

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and shipping papers, giving the following information with respect to 
each transaction in which any poultry or poultry carcass, or part or 
product of a poultry carcass, 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 poultry or other articles;
    (ii) The net weight of the poultry or other articles;
    (iii) The number of outside containers;
    (iv) The name and address of the buyer of the poultry or other 
articles sold by such person, and the name and address of the seller of 
the poultry or other 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.
    (2) Guaranties provided by suppliers of packaging materials under 
Sec. 381.144.
    (3) Records of canning as required by subpart X of this part 381, of 
subchapter C, 9 CFR chapter III.
    (4) Records of irradiation as required by sections 381.149 of this 
part.
    (5) Records of nutrition labeling as required by subpart Y of this 
part.
    (6) Records of all labeling, along with the product formulation and 
processing procedures, as prescribed in Sec. Sec. 381.132 and 381.133.

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

[37 FR 9706, May 16, 1972, as amended at 47 FR 746, Jan. 7, 1982; 49 FR 
2236, Jan. 19, 1984; 51 FR 45633, Dec. 19, 1986; 57 FR 43600, Sept. 21, 
1992; 58 FR 675, Jan. 6, 1993; 60 FR 67458, Dec. 29, 1995]