9 CFR § 145.42 - Participation.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t9/s145.42"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "9 CFR § 145.42 - Participation."
title_number: 9
title_name: "Animals and Animal Products"
section_number: "145.42"
section_name: "Participation."
chapter_name: "ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "G"
subchapter_name: "LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT"
part_number: "145"
part_name: "NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR BREEDING POULTRY"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 8301-8317; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4."
regulatory_source: "36 FR 23112, Dec. 3, 1971, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 44 FR 61586, Oct. 26, 1979."
cfr_part: "145"
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# 145.42 Participation.
(a) Participating turkey flocks, and the eggs and poults produced from them, shall comply with the applicable general provisions of subpart A of this part and the special provisions of this subpart D.
(b) Hatching eggs should be nest clean. They may be fumigated in accordance with part 147 of this subchapter or otherwise sanitized.
(c) Any nutritive material provided to poults must be free of the avian pathogens that are officially represented in the Plan disease classifications listed in § 145.10.
[36 FR 23112, Dec. 3, 1971, as amended at 38 FR 13707, May 24, 1973; 40 FR 1503, Jan. 8, 1975. Redesignated at 44 FR 61586, Oct. 26, 1979, and amended at 49 FR 19802, May 10, 1984; 57 FR 57341, Dec. 4, 1992; 65 FR 8018, Feb. 17, 2000; 68 FR 64511, Nov. 14, 2003; 79 FR 38757, July 9, 2014; 81 FR 53249, Aug. 12, 2016]