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[CITE: 21USC452]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
           CHAPTER 10--POULTRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION
 
Sec. 452. Congressional declaration of policy

    It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to provide 
for the inspection of poultry and poultry products and otherwise 
regulate the processing and distribution of such articles as hereinafter 
prescribed to prevent the movement or sale in interstate or foreign 
commerce of, or the burdening of such commerce by, poultry products 
which are adulterated or misbranded. It is the intent of Congress that 
when poultry and poultry products are condemned because of disease, the 
reason for condemnation in such instances shall be supported by 
scientific fact, information, or criteria, and such condemnation under 
this chapter shall be achieved through uniform inspection standards and 
uniform applications thereof.

(Pub. L. 85-172, Sec. 3, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 441; Pub. L. 90-492, 
Sec. 3, Aug. 18, 1968, 82 Stat. 792.)


                               Amendments

    1968--Pub. L. 90-492 inserted provisions declaring the policy of 
Congress to be to otherwise regulate the processing and distribution of 
poultry and poultry products as hereinafter prescribed so as to prevent 
the movement or sale in interstate commerce of, or the burdening of such 
commerce by poultry products which are adulterated or misbranded, and 
provisions that declared the policy of Congress to be that condemnation 
of diseased poultry and poultry products shall be achieved through 
uniform inspection standards and supported by scientific fact or 
criteria, and struck out provisions that declared the policy of Congress 
to be to provide for inspection by the inspection service to prevent the 
movement in interstate commerce or foreign commerce or in a designated 
major consuming area of poultry products which are unwholesome, 
adulterated, or otherwise unfit for human food.


                    Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 90-492 effective Aug. 18, 1968, see section 20 
of Pub. L. 90-492, set out as a note under section 451 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 454 of this title.
