---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 456"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "456"
heading: "Operation of premises, facilities and equipment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/456"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Poultry and Poultry Products Inspection"
---

# §456. Operation of premises, facilities and equipment

- (a) **Sanitary practices—** Each [official establishment](/usc/21/453.md?p=p) slaughtering [poultry](/usc/21/453.md?p=e) or processing [poultry products](/usc/21/453.md?p=f) for [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a) or otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter shall have such premises, facilities, and equipment, and be operated in accordance with such sanitary practices, as are required by regulations promulgated by the [Secretary](/usc/21/453.md?p=i) for the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a) or burdensome effect upon [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a), of [poultry products](/usc/21/453.md?p=f) which are [adulterated](/usc/21/453.md?p=g).
- (b) **Refusal of inspection—** The [Secretary](/usc/21/453.md?p=i) shall refuse to render inspection to any establishment whose premises, facilities, or equipment, or the operation thereof, fail to meet the requirements of this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–172, § 7, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 444; Pub. L. 90–492, § 7, Aug. 18, 1968, 82 Stat. 799.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1968—Par. (a). Pub. L. 90–492 substituted “otherwise subject to inspection under this chapter” for “in or for marketing in a designated major consuming area”, “burdensome effect upon commerce” for “in a designated major consuming area”, and “which are adulterated” for “which are unwholesome or adulterated”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 90–492 effective Aug. 18, 1968, see section 20 of Pub. L. 90–492, set out as a note under section 451 of this title.