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Title 21, Food and DrugsRelease 119-110

§471 Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel

Title 21 › CHAPTER 10 — POULTRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION › § 471

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel must review and evaluate, when it thinks needed, whether the poultry inspection system is adequate, needed, safe, cost-effective, and based on good science. Its reviews cover inspection steps and the work rules and relationships of federal workers in inspected plants, informal change requests, formal proposed or final regulation changes, and any other related matters the Secretary sends to it. After each review, the panel must give the Secretary a report with its findings and any recommendations. If the review is about a formal regulatory change, the report must be filed within the time limits set for formal comments on that change.

Full Legal Text

Title 21, §471

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(a)Review and evaluation
The advisory panel known as the “Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel” established by section 679a of this title shall review and evaluate, as the panel considers necessary, the adequacy, necessity, safety, cost-effectiveness, and scientific merit of— (1)
(2)informal petitions or proposals for changes in inspection procedures, processes, and techniques of plants inspected under this chapter;
(3)formal changes in poultry inspection regulations promulgated under this chapter, whether in notice, proposed, or final form; and
(4)such other matters as may be referred to the panel by the Secretary regarding the quality or effectiveness of a safe and cost-effective poultry inspection system under this chapter.
(b)Reports
(1)In general
The Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel shall submit to the Secretary a report on the results of each review and evaluation carried out under paragraph (1), including such recommendations as the panel considers appropriate.
(2)Reports on formal changes
In the case of a report concerning a formal change in poultry inspection regulations, the report shall be made within the time limits prescribed for formal comments on such changes.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Use of Appropriated Funds Pub. L. 113–235, div. A, title VII, § 741, Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2170, provided that: “Hereafter, none of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act may be used to carry out section 410 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 679a) or section 30 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 471).”

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Citation

21 U.S.C. § 471

Title 21, Food and Drugs

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110