meat-poultry · Food Safety and Inspection Service · Rule · Published 2013-08-21 · Effective 2013-09-20 · 78 FR 51658
Document
Document number
2013-20320
Federal Register citation
78 FR 51658
CFR reference
9 CFR 201
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
meat-poultry
Sub-agency
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Publication date
2013-08-21
Effective date
2013-09-20
Abstract
The Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is amending the regulations issued under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended and supplemented (P&S Act), to ensure that payments by live poultry dealers and swine contractors to poultry and swine production contract growers are based on accurate weighing of both inputs and outputs. Specifically, we are amending a regulation about scale tickets to reduce redundant wording and to clarify weighing procedures. In addition, we are amending a regulation about reweighing to add swine contractors to the list of firms that must comply, and adding feed to the list of items for which reweighing may be requested. We are also amending two other regulations about weighing livestock and poultry to add weighing processes for feed, to add a specific time limit for weighing poultry, and to add swine contractors to the list of firms that must comply with care and promptness requirements.