This Act is adopted to safeguard the health and welfare of consumers by assuring that meat and meat food products distributed to them are wholesome, unadulterated, and properly marked, labeled, and packaged. It is composed of the following subchapters: A- General Provisions providing general definitions including those of adulteration and misbranding, exemptions, and authority to the executive commissioner to adopt rules necessary for the efficient execution of this chapter. The executive commissioner shall adopt and use federal rules, regulations, and procedures for meat and poultry inspection, as applicable; B- Inspection and Other Regulation regulating inspection before slaughter if the meat and the meat products are destined solely for intrastate commerce, investigation of a disease finding by a livestock inspector if the department determines that the investigation is in the best interest of public health; quarantine; inspection of processing and slaughtering establishments; requirements for certain low-volume livestock processing establishments; inspection of meat food products; night inspection; hours of operation; inspectors; refusal to inspect; articles not intended for human consumption. detention, seizure, storage and handling, prohibition of sale of equine products, inspection and other regulation of exotic animals in interstate commerce; C-Labeling and Other Standards laying down provisions on labeling passed products, sale of mislabeled articles prohibited, standards of labeling, composition, and fill, order to cease false or misleading practice, protection of official device, mark, and certificate; D- Miscellaneous Prohibitions including slaughter or preparation not in compliance with chapter, sale, receipt, or transportation of articles not in compliance with chapter, sale, receipt, or transportation of poultry from which blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed as provided by department rule, dead, dying, disabled, and diseased animals; animals dying in manner other than slaughter, miscellaneous prohibitions applicable to exotic animals in interstate commerce, inedible animal products; E- Cooperation with Federal Government acknowledging that the department shall cooperate with the secretary of agriculture in developing and administering the meat and poultry inspection program of this state under this chapter in a manner that will achieve the purposes of this chapter and federal law and that will ensure that the requirements will be at least equal to those imposed by federal law; the department may also accept from the united states secretary of agriculture technical and laboratory assistance and training programs. F- Enforcement regulating cases of general criminal penalty, jurisdiction for violation, investigation by department, evidence and testimony, mandamus to compel compliance, depositions, compensation of witness or reporter, immunity, false report; failure to report; criminal penalty, civil penalty, unlawful disclosure, and administrative penalty.
Estados Unidos de América · 1989-09-01