21 U.S.C. § 607 : US Code - Section 607: Labeling, marking, and container requirements

Search 21 U.S.C. § 607 : US Code - Section 607: Labeling, marking, and container requirements

(a) Labeling receptacles or coverings of meat or meat food products
inspected and passed; supervision by inspectors
When any meat or meat food product prepared for commerce which
has been inspected as hereinbefore provided and marked "Inspected
and passed" shall be placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas,
or other receptacle or covering in any establishment where
inspection under the provisions of this chapter is maintained, the
person, firm, or corporation preparing said product shall cause a
label to be attached to said can, pot, tin, canvas, or other
receptacle or covering, under the supervision of an inspector,
which label shall state that the contents thereof have been
"inspected and passed" under the provisions of this chapter; and no
inspection and examination of meat or meat food products deposited
or inclosed in cans, tins, pots, canvas, or other receptacle or
covering in any establishment where inspection under the provisions
of this chapter is maintained shall be deemed to be complete until
such meat or meat food products have been sealed or inclosed in
said can, tin, pot, canvas, or other receptacle or covering under
the supervision of an inspector.
(b) Information on articles or containers; legible form
All carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products
inspected at any establishment under the authority of this
subchapter and found to be not adulterated, shall at the time they
leave the establishment bear, in distinctly legible form, directly
thereon or on their containers, as the Secretary may require, the
information required under paragraph (n) of section 601 of this
title.
(c) Labeling: type styles and sizes; definitions and standards of
identity or composition; standards of fill of container;
consistency of Federal and Federal-State standards
The Secretary, whenever he determines such action is necessary
for the protection of the public, may prescribe: (1) the styles and
sizes of type to be used with respect to material required to be
incorporated in labeling to avoid false or misleading labeling in
marketing and labeling any articles or animals subject to this
subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter; (2) definitions and
standards of identity or composition for articles subject to this
subchapter and standards of fill of container for such articles not
inconsistent with any such standards established under the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.], and there
shall be consultation between the Secretary and the Secretary of
Health and Human Services prior to the issuance of such standards
under either Act relating to articles subject to this chapter to
avoid inconsistency in such standards and possible impairment of
the coordinated effective administration of these Acts. There shall
also be consultation between the Secretary and an appropriate
advisory committee provided for in section 661 of this title, prior
to the issuance of such standards under this chapter, to avoid,
insofar as feasible, inconsistency between Federal and State
standards.
(d) Sales under false or misleading name, other marking or labeling
or in containers of misleading form or size; trade names, and
other marking, labeling, and containers approved by Secretary
No article subject to this subchapter shall be sold or offered
for sale by any person, firm, or corporation, in commerce, under
any name or other marking or labeling which is false or misleading,
or in any container of a misleading form or size, but established
trade names and other marking and labeling and containers which are
not false or misleading and which are approved by the Secretary are
permitted.
(e) Use withholding directive respecting false or misleading
marking, labeling, or container; modification of false or
misleading matter; hearing; withholding use pending proceedings;
finality of Secretary's action; judicial review; application of
section 194 of title 7
If the Secretary has reason to believe that any marking or
labeling or the size or form of any container in use or proposed
for use with respect to any article subject to this subchapter is
false or misleading in any particular, he may direct that such use
be withheld unless the marking, labeling, or container is modified
in such manner as he may prescribe so that it will not be false or
misleading. If the person, firm, or corporation using or proposing
to use the marking, labeling or container does not accept the
determination of the Secretary, such person, firm, or corporation
may request a hearing, but the use of the marking, labeling, or
container shall, if the Secretary so directs, be withheld pending
hearing and final determination by the Secretary. Any such
determination by the Secretary shall be conclusive unless, within
thirty days after receipt of notice of such final determination,
the person, firm, or corporation adversely affected thereby appeals
to the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which such
person, firm, or corporation has its principal place of business or
to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit. The provisions of section 194 of title 7 shall be
applicable to appeals taken under this section.
(f) Lamb and mutton
The Secretary, consistent with United States international
obligations, shall establish standards for the labeling of sheep
carcasses, parts of sheep carcasses, sheepmeat, and sheepmeat food
products.