Regulations last checked for updates: May 03, 2025

Title 9 - Animals and Animal Products last revised: Apr 21, 2025
§ 381.156 - Poultry meat content standards for certain poultry products.

Poultry products with labeling terminology as set forth in Table I shall comply with the specifications for percent light meat and percent dark meat set forth in said table.

Table I

Label terminology Percent light meat Percent dark meat
Natural proportions50-6550-35.
Light or white meat1000.
Dark meat0100.
Light and dark meat51-6549-35.
Dark and light meat35-4965-51.
Mostly white meat66 or more34 or less.
Mostly dark meat34 or less66 or more.
[37 FR 9706, May 16, 1972, as amended at 39 FR 4569, Feb. 5, 1974]
authority: 7 U.S.C. 138f,1633; 21 U.S.C. 451-472; 7 CFR 2.7, 2.18, 2.53
source: 37 FR 9706, May 16, 1972, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 9 CFR 381.156