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[CITE: 21USC605]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
   SUBCHAPTER I--INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING
 
Sec. 605. Examination of carcasses brought into slaughtering or 
        packing establishments, and of meat food products issued from 
        and returned thereto; conditions for entry
        
    The foregoing provisions shall apply to all carcasses or parts of 
carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other 
equines or the meat or meat products thereof which may be brought into 
any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar 
establishment, and such examination and inspection shall be had before 
the said carcasses or parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any 
department wherein the same are to be treated and prepared for meat food 
products; and the foregoing provisions shall also apply to all such 
products, which, after having been issued from any slaughtering, meat-
canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, shall be 
returned to the same or to any similar establishment where such 
inspection is maintained. The Secretary may limit the entry of 
carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products, and other 
materials into any establishment at which inspection under this 
subchapter is maintained, under such conditions as he may prescribe to 
assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such inspected 
establishments will be consistent with the purposes of this chapter.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, Sec. 5, formerly 3rd par., 34 Stat. 
1261; renumbered Sec. 5 and amended Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 1, 5, 12(a), 
Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 73 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1967--Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 5, 12(a), limited entry of articles into 
establishments under such prescribed conditions as would be consistent 
with the purpose of this chapter and included horses, mules, and other 
equines in the list of animals, respectively.


                    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.
