Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part I - Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services › Chapter 1 - MEAT HYGIENE › Subchapter H - MARKING AND LABELING › LABELING REQUIREMENTS › Section 1.256 - Establishment number on labels

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
					 The official establishment number shall be either embossed or lithographed on
					 all hermetically sealed metal, plastic or glass containers or products fully
					 processed within such containers in an official establishment, except that such
					 containers which bear labels lithographed directly on the container and in
					 which the establishment number is incorporated need not have the establishment
					 number separately embossed or lithographed thereon. Labels shall not be affixed
					 to containers so as to obscure the embossed or lithographed establishment
					 number.
(b) When any product is
					 placed in a carton or in a wrapper of paper or cloth or in any other type of
					 container approved by the Department and labeled in accordance with this
					 subchapter, the official inspection legend and the official establishment
					 number may be applied by means of a sticker to be securely and prominently
					 affixed, along with the name of product, at a place on the label reserved for
					 the purpose. If there are two or more display panels featuring the name of
					 product the inspection sticker shall be affixed to each panel.
(c) The official establishment number may be
					 omitted from the official inspection legend on the following containers or
					 labels:
(1) Cartons used as outer containers
					 of edible fats, such as lard and oleomargarine, when such products are enclosed
					 in wrappers which bear an official inspection legend containing the official
					 establishment number.
(2) The
					 immediate containers of sliced bacon, frozen dinners and pies, and similarly
					 packaged products when the official establishment number is placed on an end
					 panel at the time of packaging and when it is presented on a single colored
					 background in a prominent and legible manner in a size sufficient to insure
					 easy recognition.
(3) Consumer size
					 packages of sliced meat food products when the official establishment number is
					 printed on the label at the time of packaging and when it is presented on a
					 single colored background in a prominent and legible manner in a size
					 sufficient to insure easy recognition.
(4) Consumer size containers of meat food
					 products in aluminum pans or trays when the official establishment number is
					 embossed in such pans or trays and when a statement such as "Est. No. on Pan"
					 is placed contiguous to the official inspection legend on the
					 container.
(5) Artificial casings
					 or bags enclosing meat food products when the official establishment number is
					 etched in ink on a flat surface of a metal clip used to close the container in
					 a prominent and legible manner in a size sufficient to insure easy recognition
					 and when a statement, such as, "Est. No. on Metal Clip" is placed contiguous to
					 the official inspection legend on the casing or bag.
(6) Paper labels of canned products when the
					 official establishment number is printed on the principal display panel at the
					 time of labeling the container, or the official establishment number may be
					 printed on the back of the paper label when the statement "Est. No. on Back of
					 Label" is printed contiguous to the official legend, in a prominent and legible
					 manner in a size sufficient to insure easy recognition.