How are products labeled that include rework that comes from sausage products packed in natural or regenerated collagen casings?
Since the regulation was not designed to change current industry practice, the use of rework can continue in accordance with historic and current industry practices and Agency policies. For cooked product containing rework, if identification of the casing material was required on the product that was used as rework, that casing identification must be included on the finished product. For example, a beef frank packed in sheep casing is used as rework in a beef frank packed in beef collagen casing. The beef frank containing the rework with the sheep casing would need to identify the sheep casing in some manner.
