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[CITE: 21USC610]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
   SUBCHAPTER I--INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING
 
Sec. 610. Prohibited acts

    No person, firm, or corporation shall, with respect to any cattle, 
sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or any carcasses, 
parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of any such animals--

    (a) Slaughtering animals or preparation of articles capable 
                            of use as human food

        slaughter any such animals or prepare any such articles which 
    are capable of use as human food at any establishment preparing any 
    such articles for commerce, except in compliance with the 
    requirements of this chapter;

                   (b) Humane methods of slaughter

        slaughter or handle in connection with slaughter any such 
    animals in any manner not in accordance with the Act of August 27, 
    1958 (72 Stat. 862; 7 U.S.C. 1901-1906);

          (c) Sales, transportation, and other transactions

        sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive 
    for transportation, in commerce, (1) any such articles which (A) are 
    capable of use as human food and (B) are adulterated or misbranded 
    at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or 
    transportation, or receipt for transportation; or (2) any articles 
    required to be inspected under this subchapter unless they have been 
    so inspected and passed;

                   (d) Adulteration or misbranding

        do, with respect to any such articles which are capable of use 
    as human food, any act while they are being transported in commerce 
    or held for sale after such transportation, which is intended to 
    cause or has the effect of causing such articles to be adulterated 
    or misbranded.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, Sec. 10, formerly 8th par., 34 Stat. 
1262; renumbered Sec. 10 and amended Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 1, 7, Dec. 
15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 589; Pub. L. 95-445, Sec. 3, Oct. 10, 1978, 92 
Stat. 1069.)

                       References in Text

    Act of August 27, 1958, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 85-
765, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 862, as amended, which is classified 
generally to chapter 48 (Sec. 1901 et seq.) of Title 7, Agriculture. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
    Sections 1903 and 1905 of Title 7, included within reference to Act 
of August 27, 1958, were repealed by Pub. L. 95-445, Sec. 5(b), Oct. 10, 
1978, 92 Stat. 1069, effective as set forth in section 7 of Pub. L. 95-
445, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 
603 of this title.

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 78 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1978--Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 95-445 added subsec. (b) and 
redesignated former subsecs. (b) and (c) as (c) and (d), respectively.
    1967--Pub. L. 90-201, Sec. 7, included the list of animals and 
prohibited, except in compliance with requirements of this chapter, 
slaughtering animals or preparation of articles capable of use as human 
food, sales, transportation, and other transactions, and acts of 
adulteration or misbranding, incorporating in subsec. (b)(2) existing 
prohibition on distributions in interstate or foreign commerce of 
noninspected articles.


                    Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 95-445 effective one year after Oct. 10, 1978, 
and an additional eighteen month period thereafter in hardship cases, 
see section 7 of Pub. L. 95-445, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 
Amendment note under section 603 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1967 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 90-201 effective Dec. 15, 1967, except that 
subsecs. (b)(1) and (c) of this section effective upon expiration of 
sixty days after Dec. 15, 1967, see section 20(a) of Pub. L. 90-201, set 
out as an Effective Date note under section 601 of this title.
