21-U.S.C.-608
§608 – Sanitary Inspection and Regulation of Slaughtering and Packing Establishments; Rejection of Adulterated Meat Or Meat Food Products
Pathway
Title 21 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter I > Section 608
Details
- Reference: Section 608
- Legend: §608 – Sanitary Inspection and Regulation of Slaughtering and Packing Establishments; Rejection of Adulterated Meat Or Meat Food Products
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
The Secretary shall cause to be made, by experts in sanitation or by other competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, meat canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishments in which amenable species are slaughtered and the meat and meat food products thereof are prepared for commerce as may be necessary to inform himself concerning the sanitary conditions of the same, and to prescribe the rules and regulations of sanitation under which such establishments shall be maintained; and where the sanitary conditions of any such establishment are such that the meat or meat food products are rendered adulterated, he shall refuse to allow said meat or meat food products to be labeled, marked, stamped or tagged as inspected and passed.
(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, §8, formerly 6th par., 34 Stat. 1262; renumbered §8 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§1, 3, 12(a), (f), 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 76 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, 12(a), (f), struck out interstate or foreign before commerce and of Agriculture after Secretary, included horses, mules, and other equines in the list of animals, and substituted adulterated for unclean, unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, 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
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