Operations and procedures, generally.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 9

(a) Operations and procedures involving the processing, other handling, or (b) Poultry must be slaughtered in accordance with good commercial practices in a manner that will result in thorough bleeding of the carcasses and ensure that breathing has stopped prior to scalding. Blood from the killing operation must be confined to a relatively small area. (c) When thawing frozen ready-to-cook poultry in water, the establishment must use methods that prevent adulteration of, or net weight gain by, the poultry. (d) The water used in washing the poultry must be permitted to drain freely from the body cavity. (e) Detached ova may be collected for human food and handled only in accordance with 9 CFR 590.44 and may leave the establishment only to be moved to an official egg product processing plant for processing. Ova from condemned carcasses must be condemned and treated as required in § 381.95. (f) (g) (1) (i) Very small establishments are establishments with fewer than 10 employees or annual sales of less than $2.5 million. (ii) Very low volume establishments annually slaughter no more than 440,000 chickens, 60,000 turkeys, 60,000 ducks, 60,000 geese, 60,000 guineas, or 60,000 squabs. (2) (A) (B) (ii) Very low volume establishments as defined in paragraph (g)(1)(ii) of this section must collect and analyze samples at least once during each week of operation starting June 1 of every year. If, after consecutively collecting 13 weekly samples, a very low volume establishment can demons

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 9:§ 381.65