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[CITE: 21USC643]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES
 
Sec. 643. Registration of business, name of person, and trade 
        names
        
    No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in business, in or for 
commerce, as a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer, or 
engage in business in commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or 
parts or products of the carcasses, of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, 
horses, mules, or other equines, whether intended for human food or 
other purposes, or engage in business as a public warehouseman storing 
any such articles in or for commerce, or engage in the business of 
buying, selling, or transporting in commerce, or importing, any dead, 
dying, disabled, or diseased animals of the specified kinds, or parts of 
the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, 
unless, when required by regulations of the Secretary, he has registered 
with the Secretary his name, and the address of each place of business 
at which, and all trade names under which, he conducts such business.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, Sec. 203, as added Pub. L. 90-201, 
Sec. 14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 594.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 645 of this title.
