CFR > Title 7 - Agriculture > SUBTITLE B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture > CHAPTER I—AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Standards, Inspections, Marketing Practices), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (parts 27 to 206) > SUBCHAPTER E—COMMODITY LABORATORY TESTING PROGRAMS (parts 90 to 111) > PART 98—MEALS, READY-TO-EAT (MRE's), MEATS, AND MEAT PRODUCTS > SUBPART A—MRE's, Meats, and Related Meat Food Products (§98.1 to §98.5) > 98.4—Analytical methods.

98.4—Analytical methods.

(a) The majority of analytical methods used by the USDA laboratories to perform analyses of meat, meat food products and MRE's are listed as follows:
(1) Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Suite 500, 481 North Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877-2417.
(2) U.S. Army Individual Protection Directorate's Military Specifications, approved analytical test methods noted therein, U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760-5017.
(b) Additional analytical methods for these foods will be used, from time to time, as approved by the Director.

Code of Federal Regulations

[58 FR 42445, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 61 FR 51353, Oct. 2, 1996]