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[CITE: 21USC463]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
           CHAPTER 10--POULTRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION
 
Sec. 463. Rules and regulations


(a) Storage and handling of poultry products; violation of regulations

    The Secretary may by regulations prescribe conditions under which 
poultry products capable of use as human food, shall be stored or 
otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying, 
selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for commerce, or 
importing, such articles, whenever the Secretary deems such action 
necessary to assure that such articles will not be adulterated or 
misbranded when delivered to the consumer. Violation of any such 
regulation is prohibited.

(b) Other necessary rules and regulations

    The Secretary shall promulgate such other rules and regulations as 
are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

(c) Oral presentation of views

    In applying the provisions of section 553(c) of title 5 to proposed 
rule making under this chapter, an opportunity for the oral presentation 
of views shall be accorded all interested persons.

(Pub. L. 85-172, Sec. 14, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 447; Pub. L. 90-492, 
Sec. 13, Aug. 18, 1968, 82 Stat. 803.)


                               Amendments

    1968--Pub. L. 90-492 designated existing provisions as par. (b), 
added pars. (a) and (c), and in par. (b), as so designated, substituted 
``such other rules'' for ``such rules''.


                    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, 461 of this title.
