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[CITE: 21USC617]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
   SUBCHAPTER I--INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING
 
Sec. 617. Clearance prohibited to vessel carrying meat for 
        export without inspector's certificate
        
    No clearance shall be given to any vessel having on board any fresh, 
salted, canned, corned, or packed beef, mutton, pork, goat or equine 
meat for export to and sale in a foreign country from any port in the 
United States, until the owner or shipper thereof shall obtain from an 
inspector appointed under the provisions of this chapter a certificate 
that the said cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other 
equines were sound and healthy at the time of inspection, and that their 
meat is sound and wholesome, unless the Secretary shall have waived the 
requirements of such certificate for the country to which said cattle, 
sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines or meats are to be 
exported.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, Sec. 17, formerly 15th par., 34 Stat. 
1263; renumbered Sec. 17 and amended Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 1, 3(b), 
12(a), (g), Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 85 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1967--Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 3(b), 12(a), (g), struck out ``of 
Agriculture'' after ``Secretary'', included horses, mules, and other 
equines in the list of animals, and substituted ``goat or equine meat'' 
for ``or goat meat, being the meat of animals killed after March 4, 
1907, or except as hereinbefore provided'', 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.
