Article 3. Exemptions of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 12. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.

This chapter does not apply to a poultry plant which is operated under the sanitary regulations of the Consumer and Marketing Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

This chapter does not apply to poultry meat which bears the official mark of a city, county, or state poultry plant inspection service for sanitation outside of the state which has requirements equal to those which are provided for by this chapter if such out-of-state requirements have been approved by the director. If, however, any packing, repacking, or cutting up or recutting is done, except in a retail store or public eating house, in this state it shall be done in a poultry plant which is licensed pursuant to this chapter.

(a) This chapter does not apply to a poultry plant where poultry which was produced on the premises is slaughtered if the poultry meat which is derived from the poultry is sold by the producer in any of the following ways:
  (1) At retail upon the premises.
  (2) At retail off of the premises, either direct to consumers at their homes or at a retail stand which is operated by the producer in a farmers' market.
  (b) As used in this section, "producer" includes only an individual producer who does not employ, except in unforeseeable exigencies, any person except members of his or her immediate family.

This chapter does not apply to a poultry plant where poultry is slaughtered, dressed, and sold upon the premises where it was produced for purposes other than resale, if the entire poultry meat output of the producer is so sold.