§ 500.2 - Regulatory control action.

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FSIS may take a regulatory control action because of:

Insanitary conditions or practices;

Product adulteration or misbranding;

Conditions that preclude FSIS from determining that product is not adulterated or misbranded; or

Inhumane handling or slaughtering of livestock.

If a regulatory control action is taken, the program employee will immediately notify the establishment orally or in writing of the action and the basis for the action.

An establishment may appeal a regulatory control action, as provided in §§ 306.5 and 381.35 of this chapter.