{"data":{"id":"us/9-cfr-146.31","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"9 CFR 146.31","heading":"Definitions.","body":"Meat-type chicken. A domesticated chicken grown for the primary purpose of producing meat, including but not limited to broilers, roasters, fryers, and cornish.\nMeat-type chicken slaughter plant. A meat-type chicken slaughter plant that is federally inspected or under State inspection that the Food Safety Inspection Service has recognized as equivalent to federal inspection.\nShift. The working period of a group of employees who are on duty at the same time.\nSpent fowl. Domesticated poultry that were in production of hatching eggs or commercial table eggs and have been removed from such production.","path":["Title 9—Animals and Animal Products","CHAPTER I—ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","SUBCHAPTER G—LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT","PART 146—NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR COMMERCIAL POULTRY","Subpart C—Special Provisions for Meat-Type Chicken Slaughter Plants"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-9.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:03Z","sha256":"c7fab7aae1cce5e6575443e16055b093db5753b7aa5a72a8f79e6f24283941aa","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/9-cfr-146.24","next":"us/9-cfr-146.32"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}