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

Pays/Territoire
États-Unis d'Amérique
Type du document
Législation
Date
1907 (2009)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Source d'origine
United States Code - Title 21 - Food and Drugs.
Sujet
Bétail, Alimentation et nutrition
Mot clé
Contrôle de qualité alimentaire/innocuité des produits alimentaires Hygiène/procédures sanitaires Viande Produits de volaille Commerce international Transformation/manutention Fraude Emballage/étiquetage Institution Inspection Mise en application Infractions/sanctions Santé des animaux Parasites/maladies
Aire géographique
Amériques, Arctique, Pacifique du Est, Amérique du Nord, Atlantique Nord
Résumé

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.

Texte intégral
Anglais
Site web
www.gpo.gov