Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957

The Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957 (P.L. 85–172, as amended) requires the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to inspect all domesticated birds when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption. By regulation, FSIS has defined domesticated birds as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl. Ratites were added in 2001.^[1] The primary goals of the law are to prevent adulterated or misbranded poultry and products from being sold as food, and to ensure that poultry and poultry products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. These requirements also apply to products produced and sold within states as well as to imports, which must be inspected under equivalent foreign standards (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.).

Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957

Long title	An Act to provide for the compulsory inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture of poultry and poultry products.
Acronyms (colloquial)	PPIA
Nicknames	Poultry and Poultry Products Inspection Act
Enacted by	the 85th United States Congress
Effective	August 28, 1957
Citations
Public law	85-172
Statutes at Large	71 Stat. 441
Codification
Titles amended	21 U.S.C.: Food and Drugs
U.S.C. sections created	21 U.S.C. ch. 10 § 451 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 1747 by Allen J. Ellender (D-LA) on March 27, 1957 Committee consideration by Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, House Agricultural Passed the Senate on April 8, 1957 (Passed voice vote) Passed the House on July 15, 1957 (Passed voice vote) Reported by the joint conference committee on August 14, 1957; agreed to by the House on August 16, 1957 (Agreed voice vote) and by the Senate on August 19, 1957 (Agreed voice vote) Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 28, 1957