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[CITE: 21USC624]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
   SUBCHAPTER I--INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING
 
Sec. 624. Storage and handling regulations; violations; 
        exemption of establishments subject to non-Federal jurisdiction
        
    The Secretary may by regulations prescribe conditions under which 
carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products of cattle, 
sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, capable of use as 
human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person, firm, or 
corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, 
storing, or transporting, in or for commerce, or importing, such 
articles, whenever the Secretary deems such action necessary to assure 
that such articles will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered 
to the consumer. Violation of any such regulation is prohibited. 
However, such regulations shall not apply to the storage or handling of 
such articles at any retail store or other establishment in any State or 
organized Territory that would be subject to this section only because 
of purchases in commerce, if the storage and handling of such articles 
at such establishment is regulated under the laws of the State or 
Territory in which such establishment is located, in a manner which the 
Secretary, after consultation with the appropriate advisory committee 
provided for in section 661 of this title, determines is adequate to 
effectuate the purposes of this section.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, Sec. 24, as added Pub. L. 90-201, 
Sec. 13, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 593.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 623 of this title.
