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[CITE: 21USC642]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES
 
Sec. 642. Recordkeeping requirements


(a) Classes of persons bound; scope of disclosure; access to places of 
        business; examination of records, facilities, and inventories; 
        copies; samples

    The following classes of persons, firms, and corporations shall keep 
such records as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions 
involved in their businesses; and all persons, firms, and corporations 
subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times upon notice 
by a duly authorized representative of the Secretary, afford such 
representative access to their places of business and opportunity to 
examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such 
records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment 
of the fair market value therefor--
        (1) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage, for 
    commerce, in the business of slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swine, 
    goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or preparing, freezing, 
    packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of 
    carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human food or animal 
    food;
        (2) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in the 
    business of buying or selling (as meat brokers, wholesalers or 
    otherwise), or transporting in commerce, or storing in or for 
    commerce, or importing, any carcasses, or parts or products of 
    carcasses, of any such animals;
        (3) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in business, 
    in or for commerce, as renderers, or engage in the business of 
    buying, selling, or transporting, in commerce, or importing, any 
    dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, 
    horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any 
    such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter.

(b) Period of maintenance

    Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be 
maintained for such period of time as the Secretary may by regulations 
prescribe.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, Sec. 202, as added Pub. L. 90-201, 
Sec. 14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 593.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 645, 661, 678 of this title.
