---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 456"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "456"
heading: "Operation of premises, facilities and equipment"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/456"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Poultry and Poultry Products Inspection"
---

# §456. Operation of premises, facilities and equipment

- (a) **Sanitary practices—** Each [official establishment](/usc/21/453.md?p=p) slaughtering [poultry](/usc/21/453.md?p=e) or processing [poultry products](/usc/21/453.md?p=f) for [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a) or otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter shall have such premises, [facilities](/usc/21/350g.md?p=o-2), and equipment, and be operated in accordance with such sanitary practices, as are required by regulations promulgated by the [Secretary](/usc/21/453.md?p=i) for the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a) or burdensome effect upon [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a), of [poultry products](/usc/21/453.md?p=f) which are [adulterated](/usc/21/453.md?p=g).
- (b) **Refusal of inspection—** The [Secretary](/usc/21/453.md?p=i) shall refuse to render inspection to any establishment whose premises, [facilities](/usc/21/350g.md?p=o-2), or equipment, or the operation thereof, fail to meet the requirements of this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–172, § 7, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 444; Pub. L. 90–492, § 7, Aug. 18, 1968, 82 Stat. 799.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1968—Par. (a). Pub. L. 90–492 substituted “otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter” for “in or for marketing in a designated major consuming area”, “burdensome effect upon commerce” for “in a designated major consuming area”, and “which are adulterated” for “which are unwholesome or adulterated”.

### 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.