9 CFR 146.31
§ 146.31 Definitions.
United States · 9 CFR — Animals and Animal Products · Status: effective
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Meat-type chicken. A domesticated chicken grown for the primary purpose of producing meat, including but not limited to broilers, roasters, fryers, and cornish.
Meat-type chicken slaughter plant. A meat-type chicken slaughter plant that is federally inspected or under State inspection that the Food Safety Inspection Service has recognized as equivalent to federal inspection.
Shift. The working period of a group of employees who are on duty at the same time.
Spent fowl. Domesticated poultry that were in production of hatching eggs or commercial table eggs and have been removed from such production.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.