21 U.S.C. § 642 — Recordkeeping requirements
submitted 119 years ago by Pub. L. 90-201 to r/title-21-FOOD-AND-DRUGS · 294 words · no verdicts yet
Certain people and businesses involved with livestock slaughtering, processing, trading, transporting, storing, importing, or rendering must keep complete business records and allow the Secretary’s authorized representative to inspect them. The Secretary sets how long those records must be kept.
(a) Classes of persons bound; scope of disclosure; access to places of business; examination of records, facilities, and inventories; copies; samples. The following people, firms, and corporations must keep records that fully and correctly show every transaction involved in their businesses. Every person, firm*, or corporation subject to this requirement must, at all reasonable times after notice from a duly authorized representative of the Secretary*, let that representative enter its business locations, inspect its facilities, inventory, and records, copy all records, and take reasonable inventory samples after paying their fair market value:
(1) A person, firm, or corporation that, for commerce*, slaughters cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or prepares, freezes, packages, or labels the carcass, or a part or product of the carcass, of such an animal for human or animal food;
(2) a person, firm, or corporation that buys or sells, as a meat broker*, wholesaler, or otherwise, transports in commerce, stores in or for commerce, or imports the carcass, or a part or product of the carcass, of such an animal; or
(3) a person, firm, or corporation that operates in commerce or for commerce as a renderer*, or that buys, sells, or transports in commerce, or imports, a dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goat, horse, mule, or other equine, or a part of the carcass of such an animal that died other than by slaughter.
(b) Period of maintenance. A record required by this section must be kept for the period that the Secretary sets by regulation.
The following classes of persons, firms, and corporations shall keep such records as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses; and all persons, firms, and corporations subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the Secretary*, afford such representative access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor—
Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage, for commerce*, in the business of slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human food or animal food;
Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in the business of buying or selling (as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise), or transporting in commerce, or storing in or for commerce, or importing, any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals;
Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in business, in or for commerce, as renderers, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in commerce, or importing, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter.
Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for such period of time as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe.
Source credit: (Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, § 202, as added Pub. L. 90–201, § 14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 593.)
- 1907Enacted · Pub. L. 90-201 · 81 Stat. 593
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