Regulations last checked for updates: May 09, 2025

Title 9 - Animals and Animal Products last revised: Apr 21, 2025
§ 166.7 - Cooking standards.

(a) Garbage shall be heated throughout at boiling (212 °F. or 100 °C. at sea level) for 30 (thirty) minutes.

(b) Garbage shall be agitated during cooking, except in steam cooking equipment, to ensure that the prescribed cooking temperature is maintained throughout the cooking container for the prescribed length of time.

authority: 7 U.S.C. 3801-3813; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.8, and 371.4
source: 47 FR 49945, Nov. 3, 1982, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 9 CFR 166.7