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

This chapter, except Section 25128, does not apply to poultry meat which has been inspected and passed for wholesomeness by the United States Department of Agriculture if the immediate container or carcass of the poultry meat bears the official wholesomeness inspection mark of such department at the time of sale. If, however, any cooking, curing, smoking, packing, repacking, cutting up or recutting is done in this state, except in a retail store or public eating house, it shall be done in a poultry plant under federal or state inspection.

This chapter, except Section 25128, does not apply to poultry meat which bears the official mark of a city, county, or state poultry meat inspection service for wholesomeness in another state which has requirements equal to those provided for in this chapter, if such out-of-state requirements have been approved by the director.

(a) This chapter does not apply to poultry meat which is derived from poultry which is produced upon the premises where it is slaughtered if the poultry meat is sold by the producer in any of the following ways:
  (1) At retail on the premises.
  (2) At retail by the producer of the poultry meat 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 poultry meat which is derived from poultry which is slaughtered, dressed, and sold on the premises where it is produced for purposes other than resale, if the entire poultry meat output of the producer of such poultry is so sold.