49 U.S.C. § 5701 — Food transportation safety inspections

(a) Inspection procedures. (1) The Transportation Secretary, consulting the Health and Human Services and Agriculture Secretaries, must establish transportation-safety inspection procedures to identify suspected contamination or adulteration of (A) food violating Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act section 416 regulations, (B) a carcass, carcass part, meat, meat food product, or animal detained under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, or (C) poultry products or poultry detained under the Poultry Products Inspection Act. (2) The Transportation Secretary must create and run training to enforce this chapter, its regulations, and compatible State laws. Inspectors, including Transportation personnel, State employees under (c), and personnel paid under sections 31102 and 31104, must be trained to recognize adulteration involving transported cosmetics, devices, drugs, food, and food additives and to obtain help from proper Federal and State authorities. (3) At minimum, the procedures apply to Transportation personnel performing commercial-motor-vehicle or railroad safety inspections. (b) The Transportation Secretary must promptly notify the HHS or Agriculture Secretary, as appropriate, of potential food contamination or adulteration found during those inspections. (c) The Transportation Secretary may carry out (b) through State-employee inspections funded under sections 31102 through 31104.