# Poultry Inspection: Revision of Finished Product Standards With Respect to Fecal Contamination
> **Food Safety and Inspection Service** · Final rule; Request for comments. · Published 1997-02-04 · Effective 1997-05-05 · 62 FR 5139
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-2736
- **Category:** meat-poultry
- **Sub-agency:** Food Safety and Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 5139
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 381
- **Publication date:** 1997-02-04
- **Effective date:** 1997-05-05
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 94-016F
## Abstract

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the poultry products inspection regulations to clarify and strengthen the enforcement of FSIS's zero-tolerance policy regarding visible fecal material on poultry carcasses. FSIS is amending its regulations to codify an existing standard that ensures poultry carcasses contaminated with fecal material do not enter the chilling tank. In order to clarify the enforcement of this policy, this rule removes ``feces'' as a nonconformance element in the finished product standards for poultry. In addition, the Agency is seeking comments on the relationship between ingesta and the presence of microbial pathogens on raw poultry.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/02/04/97-2736/poultry-inspection-revision-of-finished-product-standards-with-respect-to-fecal-contamination)
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