---
kind: "section"
citation: "9 C.F.R. § 146.43"
title: "9"
number: "146.43"
heading: "Terminology and classification; meat-type turkey slaughter plants."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/9/146.43"
---

# §146.43. Terminology and classification; meat-type turkey slaughter plants.


Participating meat-type turkey slaughter plants which have met the respective requirements specified in this section may be designated by the following terms and the corresponding designs illustrated in [§ 146.9](/cfr/9/146.9.md) of this part:

- (a) **U.S. H5/H7 Avian Influenza Monitored.** This program is intended to be the basis from which the meat-type turkey industry may conduct a program to monitor for the H5/H7 subtypes of avian influenza. It is intended to determine the presence of avian influenza in meat-type turkeys through routine surveillance of each participating meat-type turkey slaughter plant. A participating meat-type turkey slaughter plant will qualify for this classification when the Official State Agency determines that it has met one of the following requirements:
  - (1) It is a meat-type turkey slaughter plant that accepts only meat-type turkeys from flocks where a minimum of 6 samples per flock have been collected no more than 21 days prior to movement to slaughter and tested negative with an approved test for type A avian influenza, as provided in [§ 146.13(b)](/cfr/9/146.13.md?p=b). It is recommended that samples be collected from flocks over 10 weeks of age with respiratory signs such as coughing, sneezing, snicking, sinusitis, or rales; depression; or decreases in food or water intake.
  - (2) It is a meat-type turkey slaughter plant that has an ongoing active and diagnostic surveillance program for the H5/H7 subtypes of avian influenza in which the number of birds tested is equivalent to the number required in [paragraph (a)(1)](#a-1) and that is approved by the Official State Agency and the Service.
- (b) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Amendments

[71 FR 56328, Sept. 26, 2006, as amended at 74 FR 14717, Apr. 1, 2009; 76 FR 15797, Mar. 22, 2011; 79 FR 38766, July 9, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 8301-8317; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 56328, Sept. 26, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[71 FR 56328, Sept. 26, 2006, as amended at 74 FR 14717, Apr. 1, 2009; 76 FR 15797, Mar. 22, 2011; 79 FR 38766, July 9, 2014]