# Livestock Carcasses and Poultry Carcasses Contaminated With Visible Fecal Material
> **Food Safety and Inspection Service** · Notice on complying with food safety standards under the HACCP system regulations. · Published 1997-11-28 · 62 FR 63254
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-31176
- **Category:** meat-poultry
- **Sub-agency:** Food Safety and Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 63254
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 1997-11-28
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 97-067N
## Abstract

The Food Safety and Inspection Service is publishing this notice to assure that the owners and operators of federally inspected slaughter establishments are aware that the Agency views its ``zero tolerance'' for visible fecal material as a food safety standard. Fecal material is a vehicle for microbial pathogens, and microbiological contamination is a food safety hazard that is reasonably likely to occur in the slaughter production process. In controlling microbiological contamination, a hazard analysis and critical control point plan for slaughter must be designed, among other things, to ensure that, by the point of post-mortem inspection of livestock carcasses or when poultry carcasses enter the chilling tank, no visible fecal material is present.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/11/28/97-31176/livestock-carcasses-and-poultry-carcasses-contaminated-with-visible-fecal-material)
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