[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR146.33]

[Page 884]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 146_NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR COMMERCIAL POULTRY
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   Subpart C_Special Provisions for Meat-Type Chicken Slaughter Plants
 
Sec. 146.33  Terminology and classification; meat-type chicken slaughter plants.

    Participating meat-type chicken slaughter plants that have met the 
respective requirements specified in this section may be designated by 
the following terms and the corresponding designs illustrated in Sec. 
146.9 of this part:
    (a) U.S. H5/H7 Avian Influenza Monitored. This program is intended 
to be the basis from which the meat-type chicken industry may conduct a 
program to monitor for the H5/H7 subtypes of avian influenza. It is 
intended to determine the presence of the H5/H7 subtypes of avian 
influenza in meat-type chickens through routine surveillance of each 
participating meat-type chicken slaughter plant. A meat-type chicken 
slaughter plant will qualify for this classification when the Official 
State Agency determines that it has met one of the following 
requirements:
    (1) It is a meat-type chicken slaughter plant where a minimum of 11 
birds per shift are tested negative for antibodies to the H5/H7 subtypes 
of avian influenza at slaughter; Provided, that with the approval of the 
Official State Agency, fewer than 11 birds per shift may be tested on 
any given shift if the total number of birds tested during the operating 
month is equivalent to testing 11 birds per shift; or
    (2) It is a meat-type chicken slaughter plant which accepts only 
meat-type chickens from flocks where a minimum of 11 birds have been 
tested negative for antibodies to the H5/H7 subtypes of avian influenza 
no more than 21 days prior to slaughter; or
    (3) It is a meat-type chicken slaughter plant that has an ongoing 
active and diagnostic surveillance program for the H5/H7 subtypes of 
avian influenza in which the number of birds tested is equivalent to the 
number required in paragraph (a)(1) or (a)(2) and that is approved by 
the Official State Agency and the Service.
    (b) [Reserved]