---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 432.21"
title: "40"
number: "432.21"
heading: "Special definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/432.21"
---

# §432.21. Special definitions.


For the purpose of this subpart: Complex slaughterhouse means a slaughterhouse that provides extensive processing of the by-products of meat slaughtering. A complex slaughterhouse would usually include at least three processing operations such as rendering, paunch and viscera handling, or processing of blood, hide or hair.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1314, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1342 and 1361.

### Source

Source: 69 FR 54541, Sept. 8, 2004, unless otherwise noted.