[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 9CFR320.1]



[Page 324-325]

 

                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 320_RECORDS, REGISTRATION, AND REPORTS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 320.1  Records required to be kept.



    (a) Every person (including every firm or corporation) within any of 

the classes specified in paragraph (a) (1), (2), or (3) of this section 

is required by the Act to keep records which will fully and correctly 

disclose all transactions involved in his or its business subject to the 

Act:

    (1) Any person that engages, for commerce, in the business of 

slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other 

equines, or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, 

or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human 

food or animal food;

    (2) Any person that engages in the business of buying or selling (as 

a meat broker, wholesaler, or otherwise), or transporting in commerce, 

or storing in or for commerce, or importing, any carcasses, or parts or 

products of carcasses, of any such animals;

    (3) Any person that engages in business, in or for commerce, as a 

renderer, or engages in the business of buying, selling, or transporting 

in commerce, or importing, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased 

cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts 

of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by 

slaughter.

    (b) The required records are:

    (1) Records, such as bills of sale, invoices, bills of lading, and 

receiving and shipping papers, giving the following information with 

respect to each transaction in which any livestock or carcass, part 

thereof, meat or meat food product is purchased, sold, shipped, 

received, transported, or otherwise handled by said person in connection 

with any business subject to the Act:

    (i) The name or description of the livestock or article;

    (ii) The net weight of the livestock or article;

    (iii) The number of outside containers (if any);

    (iv) The name and address of the buyer of livestock or article sold 

by such person, and the name and address of the seller of livestock or 

articles purchased by such person;

    (v) The name and address of the consignee or receiver (if other than 

the buyer);

    (vi) The method of shipment;

    (vii) The date of shipment; and

    (viii) The name and address of the carrier.

    (ix) In the case of a person belonging to the class specified in 

paragraph (a)(1), and engaged, for commerce, in the business of 

slaughtering any swine for use as human or animal food, the name and 

address (including the city and state, or the township, county, and 

state) of each person from whom the person belonging to the class so 

specified purchased or otherwise obtained each swine, and the telephone 

number, if available, of the person from whom the swine were purchased 

or otherwise obtained, and all serial numbers and other approved means 

of identification appearing on all test swine selected at antemortem 

inspection by FSIS representatives for residue testing.

    (2) Shipper's certificates and permits required to be kept by 

shippers and carriers of articles under part 325 of this subchapter.

    (3) A record of seal numbers required to be kept by consignees of 

inedible products shipped under unofficial seals under Sec. 325.11(b) 

or (e) of this subchapter, and a record of new consignees of inedible 

products diverted under Sec. 325.11(e) of this subchapter.



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    (4) [Reserved]

    (5) Guaranties provided by suppliers of packaging materials under 

Sec. 317.20.

    (6) Records of canning as required by subpart G of this subchapter 

A, 9 CFR chapter III.

    (7) Sample results and calculation results as required by processing 

procedures to destroy trichinae in Sec. 318.10(c)(3)(iv) (Methods 5 and 

6).

    (8) Records of nutrition labeling as required by subpart B, part 

317, of this subchapter.

    (9) Records as required in Sec. 318.23(b) and (c).

    (10) Records documenting the development, implementation, and 

maintenance of procedures for the control of the production process 

using advanced meat/bone separation machinery and meat recovery systems 

as required by Sec. 318.24 of this subchapter.

    (11) Records of all labeling, along with the product formulation and 

processing procedures, as prescribed in Sec. 317.4 and Sec. 317.5.



(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 

0583-0015)



[35 FR 15603, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 36 FR 12004, June 24, 1971; 37 

FR 1229, Jan. 27, 1972; 43 FR 30793, July 18, 1978; 47 FR 746, Jan. 7, 

1982; 47 FR 17274, Apr. 22, 1982; 49 FR 2235, Jan. 19, 1984; 51 FR 

45633, Dec. 19, 1986; 53 FR 40387, Oct. 14, 1988; 57 FR 27877, June 22, 

1992; 58 FR 675, Jan. 6, 1993; 58 FR 41152, Aug. 2, 1993; 59 FR 6897, 

Feb. 14, 1994; 59 FR 62562, Dec. 6, 1994; 60 FR 67456, Dec. 29, 1995; 64 

FR 745, Jan. 6, 1999; 69 FR 1885, Jan. 12, 2004]