Presentation of poultry carcasses
Article 4
1. Poultry carcases shall be presented for sale in one of the following forms: (a) partially eviscerated (‘effilé’, ‘roped’); (b) with giblets; (c) without giblets. 2. The word ‘eviscerated’ may be added to the packaging. 3. Partially eviscerated carcases are carcases from which the heart, liver, lungs, gizzard, crop, and kidneys have not been removed. 4. For the carcase presentations referred to in paragraph 1, if the head is not removed, trachea, oesophagus and crop may remain in the carcase. 5. Giblets shall comprise only the heart, gizzard and liver, oviduct, yolks and ready to lay eggs obtained from spent hens at the slaughterhouse, and all other parts considered as edible by consumers on the market on which the product is intended for final consumption. Livers shall be without gall bladders. The gizzard shall be without the horned membrane, and the contents of the gizzard shall have been removed. The heart may be with or without the pericardial sac.