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Title 9: Animals and Animal Products
CHAPTER II: GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION (PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS PROGRAMS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
PART 201: REGULATIONS UNDER THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT
: Services
201.82 - Care and promptness in weighing and handling livestock and live poultry.
(a) Each stockyard owner, market agency, dealer, packer and live poultry dealer shall exercise reasonable care and promptness with respect to loading, transporting, holding, yarding, feeding, watering, weighing or otherwise handling livestock or live poultry to prevent waste of feed, shrinkage, injury, death or other avoidable loss.
(b) Whenever live poultry is obtained under a poultry growing arrangement, the poultry shall be transported promptly after loading and the gross weight for grower payment purposes shall be determined immediately upon arrival at the processing plant, holding yard, or other scale normally used for such purpose.
[54 FR 16356, Apr. 24, 1989; 54 FR 18713, May 2, 1989]
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