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Meat Inspection (21 U.S.C. 601-695).

Country/Territory
United States of America
Document type
Legislation
Date
1907 (2009)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
United States Code - Title 21 - Food and Drugs.
Subject
Livestock, Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Hygiene/sanitary procedures Meat Poultry products International trade Processing/handling Fraud Packaging/labelling Institution Inspection Enforcement/compliance Offences/penalties Animal health Pests/diseases
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This Chapter of Title 21 of USC concerns measures to ensure proper placing on the market of meat and meat products. It concerns insopection of animals prior to slaughtering, meat inspection, meat labelling, adulteration and misbranding, a program regarding the availability and safety of processes and treatments that eliminate or substantially reduce the level of pathogens on meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products, imports, export, enforcement, etc. There is established in the Department of Agriculture a permanent advisory panel to be known as the "Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel". Diseased animal shall be slughtered seperately. No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in business, in or for commerce, as a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, whether intended for human food or other purposes, or engage in business as a public warehouseman storing any such articles in or for commerce, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in commerce, or importing, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals of the specified kinds, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless, when required by regulations of the Secretary, he oe she has registered with the Secretary of Agriculture. The provisions of the meat-inspection law may be extended to the inspection of reindeer.

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Website
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