PUBLIC LAW 104-180—AUG. 6, 1996 110 STAT. 1601 (A) the products shall be prohibited under the rule from being labeled as "fresh" but shall not be required to bear any specific alternative labeling; and (B) nothing in this section shall be interpreted as modifying the requirements for labeling of all poultry products the internal core temperature of which has ever fallen to 0° Fahrenheit as "frozen"; (3) provides for a tolerance from the 26° Fahrenheit standard established by the rule of— (A) 1° Fahrenheit for poultry products within an official processing establishment; (B) 2° Fahrenheit for poultry products in commerce; (4) exempts from temperature testing wings, tenders, hearts, livers, gizzards, necks, and products that undergo special processing, such as sliced poultry products; and (5) in all other terms and conditions (including the period of time permitted for implementation) is substantively identical to the rule referred to in subsection (a). (c) REVISED LABELING STANDARDS.—Not later than 60 days after the issuance of a revised final rule under subsection (b), the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, shall issue a compliance directive for the enforcement of the revised labeling standards established by the rule, including standards for— (1) temperature testing that are based on measurements at the center of the deepest muscle; and (2) sampling methods that ensure that the average of individual temperatures within poultry product lots of each specific product type (such as whole birds, whole muscle leg products, and whole muscle breast products) meet the standards. (d) SEVERABILITY. — If any provision of this section or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this section and of the application of the provision to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected. SEC. 733. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of 21 USC 342 note, law, any domestic fish or fish product produced in compliance with food safety standards or procedures accepted by the Food and Drug Administration as satisfying the requirements of the "Procedures for the Safe and Sanitary Processing and Importing of Fish and Fish Products" (published by the Food and Drug Administration as a final regulation in the Federal Register of December 18, 1995), shall be deemed to have met any inspection requirements of the Department of Agriculture or other Federal agency for any Federal commodity purchase program, including the program authorized under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c) except that the Department of Agriculture or other Federal agency may utilize lot inspection to establish a reasonable degree of certainty that fish or fish products purchased under a Federal commodity purchase program, including the program authorized under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), meet Federal product specifications. SEC. 734. Rural Housing Program Extensions. — (a) EXTENSION OF MULTIFAMILY RURAL HOUSING LOAN PRO- GRAM. —
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