[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: 9CFR500.3]

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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. 500.3  Withholding action or suspension without prior notification.

    (a) FSIS may take a withholding action or impose a suspension 
without providing the establishment prior notification because:
    (1) The establishment produced and shipped adulterated or misbranded 
product as defined in 21 U.S.C. 453 or 21 U.S.C. 602;
    (2) The establishment does not have a HACCP plan as specified in 
Sec. 417.2 of this chapter;
    (3) The establishment does not have Sanitation Standard Operating 
Procedures as specified in Sec. Sec. 416.11-416.12 of this chapter;
    (4) Sanitary conditions are such that products in the establishment 
are or would be rendered adulterated;
    (5) The establishment violated the terms of a regulatory control 
action;
    (6) An establishment operator, officer, employee, or agent 
assaulted, threatened to assault, intimidated, or interfered with an 
FSIS employee; or
    (7) The establishment did not destroy a condemned meat or poultry 
carcass, or part or product thereof, in accordance with part 314 or part 
381, subpart L, of this chapter within three days of notification.
    (b) FSIS also may impose a suspension without providing the 
establishment prior notification because the establishment is handling 
or slaughtering animals inhumanely.