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PUBLIC LAW 85-172-AUG. 28, 1957

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retary as having the responsibility for carrying out the provisions of this Act. (1) The terms "container" or "package" include any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic, or any other receptacle, wrapper, or cover. (m) The term "official establishment" means any establishment as determined by the Secretary at which inspection of the slaughter of poultry, or the processing of poultry products, is maintained under the authority of this Act. (n) The term "label*' means any written, printed, or graphic material upon the shipping container, if any, or upon the immediate container, including but not limited to an individual consumer package, of the poultry product, or accompanying such product. (o) The term "shipping container*' means any container used or intended for use in packaging the product packed in an immediate container. (p) The term "immediate container" includes any consumer package; or any other container in which poultry carcasses or poultry products, not consumer packaged, are packed. DESIGNATION

SEC. 5. Upon application by any appropriate State or local official or agency of a substantial portion of any major consuming area or upon application by an appropriate local poultry industry group in such an area, where the Secretary has reason to believe that poultry or poultry products are handled or consumed in such volume as to aft'ect, burden, or obstruct the movement of inspected poultry products in i]iterstate commerce, the Secretary shall conduct a public hearing to ascertain whether or not it will tend to effectuate the purposes of this Act for such area to be subject to the provisions of this Act. If after public hearing the Secretary finds that poultry or poultry products are handled or consumed in such volume as to affect, burden, or obstruct the movement of inspected poultry products in commerce and that the designation of such area will tend to effectuate the purposes of this Act, he shall by order designate such area and prescribe the provisions of this Act which shall be applicable thereto and grant such exemptions therefrom as he determines practicable. Such desig- p.^"*'*^'' ^*^°" ^" nation shall not become effective until six months after the notice thereof is published in the Federal Register. On and after the effective date of such designation, all poultry and poultry products processed, sold, received, or delivered in any such area shall be subject to the provisions of this Act. A N T E MORTEM AND POST MORTEM INSPECTION, R E INSPECTION, AND QUARANTINE

SEC. 6, (a) For the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in commerce or a designated major consuming area of any poultry product which is unwholesome or adulterated, the Secretary shall, where and to the extent considered by him necessary, cause to be made by inspectors ante mortem inspection of poultry in any official establishment processing poultry or poultry products for commerce or in, or for marketing in a designated city or area. (b) The Secretary, whenever processing operations are being conducted, shall cause to be made by inspectors post mortem inspection of the carcass of each bird processed, and at any time such quarantine, segregation, reinspection as he deems necessary of poultry and poultry products in each official establishment processing such poultry or poultry products for commerce or in, or for marketing in a designated city or area.

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