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PUBLIC LAW 90-492-AUG. 18, 1968

(b) Paragraph (b) is amended by deletino; the phrase '"in, or for marketing in a designated city or area" and substituting the phrase "otherwise subject to inspection under this Act"; by inserting the word "and" before the word "reinspection"; and by inserting the phrase "capable of use as human food" after the plirase "poultry products" the first time the latter phrase appears in the paragraph. (c) Paragiuph (c) is amended by deleting the phrase "unwholesome or" and the phrase "not unwholesome and" each time they appear therein; and by inserting the word "other" before the phrase "poultry products". SEC. 7. In section 7 of said Act (21 U.S.C. 456) paragraph (a) is hereby amended by deleting the phrase "in or for marketing in a designating major consuming area" and substituting the phrase "otherAvise subject to inspection under this Act"; by deleting the phrase "in a designated major consuming area" and substituting the phrase "burdensome effect upon commerce"; and by deleting the phrase "unwholesome or". SEC. 8. Section 8 of said Act (21 U.S.C. 457) is hereby amended to read: "SEC. 8. (a) All poultry products inspected at any official establishment under the authority of this Act and found to be not adulterated, shall at the time they leave the establishment bear, in distinctly legible form, on their shipping containers and immediate contiainers as the Secretary may require, the information required under paragraph (h) of section 4 of this Act. In addition, the Secretary whenever he determines such action is practicable and necessary for the protection of the public, may require nonconsumer pac-kaged carcasses at the time they leave the establishment to bear directly thereon in distinctly legible form any information required under such paragraph "(b) The Secretary, whenever he determines such action is necessary for the protection of the public, may prescribe: (1) the styles and sizes of type to be used with respect to material required to be incorporated in labeling to avoid false or misleading labeling in marking and labeling any articles or poultry subject to this Act; (2) definitions and standards of identity or composition or articles subject to this Act and standards of fill of container for such articles not inconsistent with any such standards established under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and there shall be consultation between the Secretary and the Secretary of Health, Education, and AVelfare prior to the issuance of such standards under either Act relating to articles subject to this Act to avoid inconsistency in such standards and possible impairment of the coordinated effective administration of these Acts. There shall also be consultation between the Secretary and an appropriate advisory committee provided for in section 5 of this Act, prior to the issuance of such standards under this Act, to avoid, insofar as feasible, inconsistency between Federal and State standards. "(c) No article subject to this Act shall be sold or offered for sale by any person in commerce, under any name or other marking or labeling which is false or misleading, or in any container of a misleading form or size, but established trade names and other marking and labeling and containers which are not false or misleading and which are approA'^ed by the Secretary are permitted. " (d) If the Secretary has reason to believe that any marking or labeling or the size or form of any container in use or proposed for use with respect to any article subject to this Act is false or misleading in any particular, he may direct that such use be withheld unless the marking, labeling, or container is modified in such manner as he may prescribe so that it will not be false or misleading. If the person using

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