21 CFR § 1250.25 - Source identification and inspection of food and drink.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t21/s1250.25"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "21 CFR § 1250.25 - Source identification and inspection of food and drink."
title_number: 21
title_name: "Food and Drugs"
section_number: "1250.25"
section_name: "Source identification and inspection of food and drink."
chapter_name: "FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "L"
subchapter_name: "REGULATIONS UNDER CERTAIN OTHER ACTS ADMINISTERED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION"
part_number: "1250"
part_name: "INTERSTATE CONVEYANCE SANITATION"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "42 U.S.C. 216, 243, 264, 271."
regulatory_source: "40 FR 5624, Feb. 6, 1975, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1250"
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# 1250.25 Source identification and inspection of food and drink.
(a) Operators of conveyances shall identify, when requested by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, the vendors, distributors or dealers from whom they have acquired or are acquiring their food supply, including milk, fluid milk products, ice cream and other frozen desserts, butter, cheese, bottled water, sandwiches and box lunches.
(b) The Commissioner of Food and Drugs may inspect any source of such food supply in order to determine whether the requirements of the regulations in this subpart and in § 1240.20 of this chapter are being met, and may utilize the results of inspections of such sources made by representatives of State health departments or of the health authorities of contiguous foreign nations.
[40 FR 5624, Feb. 6, 1975, as amended at 48 FR 11432, Mar. 18, 1983]