New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS › Chapter VI - Food Control › Subchapter G - Inspection of Meat, Meat Products and Poultry (Article 5-B Agriculture and Markets Law) › Article 1 - Meat and Meat Products › Part 316 - Marking Products And Their Containers › Section 316.13 - Marking of outside containers

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Part 325
					 of this Article, when any inspected and passed product is moved from an
					 official establishment, the outside container shall bear an official inspection
					 legend as prescribed in Part 312 of this Article.
(b) When any product prepared in an official
					 establishment has been inspected and passed and is enclosed in a cloth or other
					 wrapping, such wrapping shall bear the official inspection legend and official
					 establishment number applied by the approved rubber brand in the form
					 prescribed in Part 312 of this article: provided, that the rubber brand may be
					 omitted if the official inspection legend and official establishment number on
					 the product itself are clearly legible through the wrapping or the wrapping is
					 labeled in accordance with Part 317 of this Article: provided further, that
					 plain unprinted wrappings, such as stockinettes, cheese cloth, paper, and
					 crinkled paper bags, for properly marked products, which are used solely to
					 protect the product against soiling or excessive drying during transportation
					 or storage, need not bear the official inspection legend.
(c) [Reserved]
(d) Slack barrels used as outside containers
					 of products shall have a cloth or paper top covering bearing the official
					 inspection legend containing the official establishment number. At the time of
					 removal of the covering, the official inspection legend shall be
					 destroyed.
(e) The outside
					 containers of any product which has been inspected and passed for cooking, pork
					 which has been refrigerated as provided in subdivision
					 318.10(c) 
					 of this Article, and beef which has been inspected and passed for refrigeration
					 shall bear the markings and tag prescribed in subdivision 325.7(b) of this
					 Article.
(f) The outside containers
					 of glands and organs which are not used for human food purposes, such as those
					 described in section 325.19 of this Article, shall be plainly marked with the
					 phrase "For pharmaceutical purposes", "For organotherapeutic purposes" or "For
					 technical purposes", as appropriate, with no reference to inspection and need
					 not bear other markings otherwise required under the regulations in this
					 Article.
(g) Stencils, box dies,
					 labels, and brands may be used on shipping containers of properly labeled
					 products and on such immediate containers, of properly marked products, as
					 tierces, barrels, drums, boxes, crates, and large-size fiberboard containers,
					 without approval as provided for in section
					 317.3 
					 of this article: provided, that the stencils, box dies, labels, and brands are
					 not false or misleading and are approved by the officer in charge. The official
					 inspection legend for use with such markings shall be approved by the
					 commissioner as provided for in Part 317 of this Article.
(h) The outside containers of livers prepared
					 as described in subdivisions 314.10(a), (b), (c) and (d) shall be marked as
					 prescribed in subdivision 314.10(c) of this Article
(i) The outside containers of any equine
					 product shall be marked to show the kinds of animals from which derived, when
					 the products are sold, transported, offered for sale or transported, or
					 received for transportation or sale.