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[CITE: 21USC608]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
   SUBCHAPTER I--INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING
 
Sec. 608. Sanitary inspection and regulation of slaughtering and 
        packing establishments; rejection of adulterated meat or meat 
        food products
        
    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 
cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines 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, Sec. 8, formerly 6th par., 34 Stat. 
1262; renumbered Sec. 8 and amended Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 1, 3, 12(a), 
(f), Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 76 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1967--Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 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 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.
