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Title

06

:
Agriculture






Chapter

204

:
PREPARATION OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCTS











 

§

3308. Prohibited acts in general

(a) No person

shall, with respect to any livestock or poultry or any livestock products or

poultry products:

(1) slaughter

any livestock or poultry or prepare any products which are capable of use as

human food, at any establishment preparing the products solely for intrastate

commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter and the

rules adopted pursuant to this chapter;

(2) sell,

transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in

intrastate commerce, any products which:

(A) are capable

for use as human food; and

(B) are

adulterated or misbranded at the time of the sale, transportation, offer for

sale or transportation, or receipt for transportation; or

(C) have not

been inspected and passed unless they are exempt from inspection pursuant to

rules adopted by the secretary; or

(3) do, with

respect to any of these products which are capable of use as human food, any

act while they are being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale

after transportation, which is intended to cause or has the effect of causing

the products to be adulterated or misbranded.

(b) No person

shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for

transportation, in intrastate commerce, or from an official establishment, any

slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head or viscera have

not been removed in accordance with rules adopted by the secretary except as

may be authorized by rules.

(c) No person

shall violate any provision of this chapter, the rules adopted pursuant to this

chapter, the orders of the secretary, or of his or her inspectors. (Added 1985,

No. 226 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 2, 1986; amended 1989, No. 183 (Adj.

Sess.), § 7; 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003.)