# National Organic Program (NOP); Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule; delay of effective date. · Published 2017-05-10 · Effective 2017-11-14 · 82 FR 21677
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-09409
- **Category:** meat-poultry
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 21677
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 205
- **Publication date:** 2017-05-10
- **Effective date:** 2017-11-14
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-NOP-15-0012
## Abstract

The United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is delaying the effective date of the rule published on January 19, 2017, for an additional six months to November 14, 2017, to allow time for further consideration by USDA. The effective date for this rule was initially March 20, 2017, and was subsequently delayed to May 19, 2017, by a document published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2017. The final rule amends the organic livestock and poultry production requirements by adding new provisions for livestock handling and transport for slaughter and avian living conditions; and expands and clarifies existing requirements covering livestock care and production practices and mammalian living conditions.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/05/10/2017-09409/national-organic-program-nop-organic-livestock-and-poultry-practices)
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