---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 452"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "452"
heading: "Congressional declaration of policy"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/452"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Poultry and Poultry Products Inspection"
---

# §452. Congressional declaration of policy


It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to provide for the inspection of [poultry](/usc/21/453.md?p=e) and [poultry products](/usc/21/453.md?p=f) and otherwise regulate the processing and [distribution](/usc/21/360eee.md?p=5) of such articles as hereinafter prescribed to prevent the movement or sale in interstate or foreign [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a) of, or the burdening of such [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a) by, [poultry products](/usc/21/453.md?p=f) which are [adulterated](/usc/21/453.md?p=g) or [misbranded](/usc/21/453.md?p=h). It is the intent of Congress that when [poultry](/usc/21/453.md?p=e) and [poultry products](/usc/21/453.md?p=f) are condemned because of disease, the reason for condemnation in such instances shall be supported by scientific fact, information, or criteria, and such condemnation under this chapter shall be achieved through uniform inspection standards and uniform applications thereof.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–172, § 3, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 441; Pub. L. 90–492, § 3, Aug. 18, 1968, 82 Stat. 792.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–492 inserted provisions declaring the policy of Congress to be to otherwise regulate the processing and distribution of poultry and poultry products as hereinafter prescribed so as to prevent the movement or sale in interstate commerce of, or the burdening of such commerce by poultry products which are adulterated or misbranded, and provisions that declared the policy of Congress to be that condemnation of diseased poultry and poultry products shall be achieved through uniform inspection standards and supported by scientific fact or criteria, and struck out provisions that declared the policy of Congress to be to provide for inspection by the inspection service to prevent the movement in interstate commerce or foreign commerce or in a designated major consuming area of poultry products which are un­wholesome, adulterated, or otherwise unfit for human food.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 90–492 effective Aug. 18, 1968, see section 20 of Pub. L. 90–492, set out as a note under section 451 of this title.