21-U.S.C.-604
§604 – Post Mortem Examination of Carcasses and Marking Or Labeling; Destruction of Carcasses Condemned; Reinspection
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Title 21 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter I > Section 604
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- Reference: Section 604
- Legend: §604 – Post Mortem Examination of Carcasses and Marking Or Labeling; Destruction of Carcasses Condemned; Reinspection
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose a post mortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all amenable species to be prepared at any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia as articles of commerce which are capable of use as human food; and the carcasses and parts thereof of all such animals found to be not adulterated shall be marked, stamped, tagged, or labeled as Inspected and passed; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag as Inspected and condemned all carcasses and parts thereof of animals found to be adulterated; and all carcasses and parts thereof thus inspected and condemned shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Secretary may remove inspectors from any such establishment which fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof, and said inspectors, after said first inspection, shall, when they deem it necessary, reinspect said carcasses or parts thereof to determine whether since the first inspection the same have become adulterated, and if any carcass or any part thereof shall, upon examination and inspection subsequent to the first examination and inspection, be found to be adulterated, it shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Secretary may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof.
(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, §4, formerly 2nd par., 34 Stat. 1260; renumbered §4 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§1, 3, 4, 12(a)–(d), Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592; Pub. L. 109–97, title VII, §798[(a)](1), Nov. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 2166.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 72 of this title.
Amendments
2005—Pub. L. 109–97 substituted amenable species for cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines.
1967—Pub. L. 90–201, §§3, 4, 12(a)–(d), struck out interstate or foreign before commerce and of Agriculture after Secretary in three places; struck out for human consumption before at any slaughtering and for transportation or sale after District of Columbia and inserted which are capable of use as human food after commerce; included horses, mules, and other equines in the list of animals; substituted adulterated for unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food after ’Inspected and condemned,’ all carcasses and parts thereof of animals found to be and before , it shall be destroyed; substituted not adulterated for sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food; and substituted adulterated for unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food before and if any carcass, respectively.
Effective Date of 2005 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 109–97 effective the day after 120 days after Nov. 10, 2005, see section 798(b) of Pub. L. 109–97, set out as a note under section 601 of this title.
Effective Date of 1967 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 90–201 effective Dec. 15, 1967, except that with respect to equines (other than horses) and their carcasses and parts thereof, meat, and meat food products thereof, amendment effective upon expiration of sixty days after Dec. 15, 1967, see section 20(b) of Pub. L. 90–201, set out as an Effective Date note under section 601 of this title.
U.S. Encyclopedia of Law Coverage
21-U.S.C.-604 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Meat Inspection
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21-U.S.C.-469 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Food
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