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[CITE: 21USC456]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
           CHAPTER 10--POULTRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION
 
Sec. 456. Operation of premises, facilities and equipment


(a) Sanitary practices

    Each official establishment slaughtering poultry or processing 
poultry products for commerce or otherwise subject to inspection under 
this chapter shall have such premises, facilities, and equipment, and be 
operated in accordance with such sanitary practices, as are required by 
regulations promulgated by the Secretary for the purpose of preventing 
the entry into or flow or movement in commerce or burdensome effect upon 
commerce, of poultry products which are adulterated.

(b) Refusal of inspection

    The Secretary shall refuse to render inspection to any establishment 
whose premises, facilities, or equipment, or the operation thereof, fail 
to meet the requirements of this section.

(Pub. L. 85-172, Sec. 7, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 444; Pub. L. 90-492, 
Sec. 7, Aug. 18, 1968, 82 Stat. 799.)


                               Amendments

    1968--Par. (a). Pub. L. 90-492 substituted ``otherwise subject to 
inspection under this chapter'' for ``in or for marketing in a 
designated major consuming area'', ``burdensome effect upon commerce'' 
for ``in a designated major consuming area'', and ``which are 
adulterated'' for ``which are unwholesome or adulterated''.


                    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 sections 454, 467 of this title.
