§463 — Title 21 Food and Drugs | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary can make rules about how poultry meant for people must be stored, handled, transported, sold, frozen, or imported in commerce when needed to keep the food from being unsafe or mislabeled. People must not break those rules. The Secretary must also make any other rules needed to enforce this chapter. When using section 553(c) of title 5 for proposed rules under this chapter, the Secretary must let any interested person give an oral presentation of their views.

Title 21, §463

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

(c)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.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

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”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1968 AmendmentAmendment 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.

§463 Rules and regulations