N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47C-2.2 - Sectioned poultry

(a) All cut-up poultry shall be offered for sale or sold by net weight on the following basis of dissection:

1. The wings of each poultry item must be disjointed and removed at the socket joint adjoining the breasts and must contain all the wing meat.

2. The legs must be disjointed and removed from the shank at the hock joint and from the body at the hip point and must contain the complete thigh, all the thigh meat, and the oyster but shall not contain the ilium and the ischium bones or any part thereof.

3. The drumsticks must be disjointed and removed from the shank at the hock joint and disjointed and removed from the thigh at knee joint between the tibia and femur (thigh) bones.

4. The thighs must be disjointed and removed from the drumstick at the knee joint between the tibia and femur (thigh) bone from the body at the hip joint and must contain the complete thigh, all the thigh meat and the oyster, but shall not contain the ilium or the ischium bones or any part thereof.

5. The breast must be removed from the back by cutting alongside the exterior of the oyster socket (ilium) and through the ribs at the point the ribs connect with the spinal vertebrae. No part of the wings, legs, back or neck bones, skin, meat, gizzard, heart or any other portion not breast may be sold as breasts.

6. The back must contain the neck, vertebrae, backbone, oyster socket (ilium), the ischium and the meat, skin and bones of these parts.

(b) The requirements of (a) above do not apply when the poultry is:

1. Split down the back into halves; or

2. Cut into quarters, provided, however, that all such portions are at all times properly labeled, advertised or otherwise described as such.

Notes

N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47C-2.2

Amended by R.1999 d.202, effective 7/6/1999.
See: 31 New Jersey Register 926(a), 31 New Jersey Register 1817(a).
In (a), substituted a reference to net weight for a reference to avoirdupois net weight in the introductory paragraph.
Amended by R.2004 d.435, effective 12/6/2004.
See: 36 New Jersey Register 3229(a), 36 New Jersey Register 5366(b).