Poultry and eggs (ICS code(s): 67.120.20)

Standard Specification for Poultry and poultry products; (39 page(s), in English)

This standard covers the quality and food safety provisions for poultry meat and processing from receival at the processing plant through to retail sale. This standard establishes the requirements for sanitation, plant hygiene, the dressing operation, grading, packaging, labelling, additives, criteria, animal welfare, and marketing as well as ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of poultry products for sale. It defines and distinguishes between the market classes of poultry. This standard is intended to be compulsory.