21 U.S.C. § 619 — Marking, labeling, or other identification to show kinds of animals from which derived; separate establishments for preparation and slaughtering activities
submitted 119 years ago by ch. 2907 to r/title-21-FOOD-AND-DRUGS · 136 words · no verdicts yet
This section requires covered animal carcasses and their products in commerce to be clearly identified by animal type. It also allows the Secretary to require separate establishments for certain preparation and slaughter activities.
No person, firm*, or corporation must sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce*, any carcasses of species designated by regulations in effect on the day before November 10, 2005 , or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat food products of it, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the Secretary* to show the kinds of animals from which they were derived. When required by the Secretary, for establishments at which inspection is maintained under this subchapter, such animals and their carcasses, parts of it, meat and meat food products must be prepared in establishments separate from those in which other amenable species* are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts of it, meat or meat food products are prepared.
No person, firm*, or corporation shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce*, any carcasses of species designated by regulations in effect on the day before November 10, 2005, or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat food products thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the Secretary* to show the kinds of animals from which they were derived. When required by the Secretary, with respect to establishments at which inspection is maintained under this subchapter, such animals and their carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products shall be prepared in establishments separate from those in which other amenable species* are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products are prepared.
Source credit: (Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 19, formerly 17th par., 34 Stat. 1264; renumbered § 19 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 1, 9, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 590; Pub. L. 109–97, title VII, § 798[(a)](3), Nov. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 2166.)
- 1907Enacted · Act of Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907 · 34 Stat. 1264
- 1967Amended · Pub. L. 90-201 · 81 Stat. 584, 590
- 2005Amended · Pub. L. 109-97 · 119 Stat. 2166
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