21 USC 623 - Exemptions from inspection requirements

U.S Code last checked for updates: Feb 22, 2025

§ 623.

Exemptions from inspection requirements

(a)

Personal slaughtering and custom slaughtering for personal, household, guest, and employee uses

(b)

Territorial exemption; refusal, withdrawal, or modification

(c)

Pizzas containing meat food products

(1)

Under such terms and conditions as the Secretary shall prescribe through rules and regulations issued under section 624 of this title that may be necessary to ensure food safety and protect public health such as special handling procedures, the Secretary shall exempt pizzas containing a meat food product from the inspection requirements of this chapter if—

(A)

the meat food product components of the pizzas have been prepared, inspected, and passed in a cured or cooked form as ready-to-eat in compliance with the requirements of this chapter; and

(B)

the pizzas are to be served in public or private nonprofit institutions.

(2)

The Secretary may withdraw or modify any exemption under this subsection whenever the Secretary determines such action is necessary to ensure food safety and to protect public health. The Secretary may reinstate or further modify any exemption withdrawn or modified under this subsection.

(d)

Adulteration and misbranding provisions applicable to inspection-free articles

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 23, formerly 21st, 22nd pars., 34 Stat. 1265; June 29, 1938, ch. 810, 52 Stat. 1235; renumbered § 23 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 1, 11, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 591; Pub. L. 91–342, July 18, 1970, 84 Stat. 438; Pub. L. 102–237, title X, § 1016(a), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1902.)

cite as: 21 USC 623