# Scales; Accurate Weights, Repairs, Adjustments or Replacements After Inspection
> **Food Safety and Inspection Service** · Direct final rule. · Published 2014-04-29 · Effective 2014-06-30 · 79 FR 23892
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-09655
- **Category:** meat-poultry
- **Sub-agency:** Food Safety and Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 79 FR 23892
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 201
- **Publication date:** 2014-04-29
- **Effective date:** 2014-06-30
## Abstract

The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) Packers and Stockyards Program (PSP) is incorporating by reference "2013 edition of the NIST Handbook 44" and to require that the scales used by stockyard owner, market agencies, dealers, packers, and live poultry dealers to weigh livestock, livestock carcasses, live poultry, or feed for the purpose of purchase, sales acquisitions, payment, or settlement meet applicable requirements of the 2013 edition of the NIST Handbook 44.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/04/29/2014-09655/scales-accurate-weights-repairs-adjustments-or-replacements-after-inspection)
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