---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 463"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "463"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/463"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Poultry and Poultry Products Inspection"
---

# §463. Rules and regulations

- (a) **Storage and handling of poultry products; violation of regulations—** The [Secretary](/usc/21/453.md?p=i) may by regulations prescribe conditions under which [poultry products](/usc/21/453.md?p=f) [capable of use as human food](/usc/21/453.md?p=v), shall be stored or otherwise handled by any [person](/usc/21/453.md?p=j) engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for [commerce](/usc/21/453.md?p=a), or importing, such articles, whenever the [Secretary](/usc/21/453.md?p=i) deems such action necessary to assure that such articles will not be [adulterated](/usc/21/453.md?p=g) or [misbranded](/usc/21/453.md?p=h) when delivered to the consumer. Violation of any such regulation is prohibited.
- (b) **Other necessary rules and regulations—** The [Secretary](/usc/21/453.md?p=i) shall promulgate such other rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
- (c) **Oral presentation of views—** In applying the provisions of [section 553(c) of title 5](/usc/5/553.md?p=c) to proposed rule making under this chapter, an opportunity for the oral presentation of views shall be accorded all interested [persons](/usc/21/453.md?p=j).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–172, § 14, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 447; Pub. L. 90–492, § 13, Aug. 18, 1968, 82 Stat. 803.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–492 designated existing provisions as par. (b), added pars. (a) and (c), and in par. (b), as so designated, substituted “such other rules” for “such rules”.

### 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.