---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 98.4"
title: "7"
number: "98.4"
heading: "Analytical methods."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/98.4"
---

# §98.4. Analytical methods.

- (a) The majority of analytical methods used by the USDA laboratories to perform analyses of meat, meat food products and MREs are listed as follows:
  - (1) Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Suite 500, 481 North Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877-2417.
  - (2) U.S. Army Individual Protection Directorate's Military Specifications, approved analytical test methods noted therein, U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760-5017.
- (b) Additional analytical methods for these foods will be used, from time to time, as approved by the Director.

## Notes

### Amendments

[58 FR 42445, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 61 FR 51353, Oct. 2, 1996]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622, 1624.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 42445, Aug. 9, 1993, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[58 FR 42445, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 61 FR 51353, Oct. 2, 1996]