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[CITE: 21USC644]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES
 
Sec. 644. Regulation of transactions, transportation, or 
        importation of 4-D animals to prevent use as human food
        
    No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, 
selling, or transporting in commerce, or importing, dead, dying, 
disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any 
animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, 
transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for 
transportation, in commerce, or import, 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, unless such transaction, transportation or importation is 
made in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe 
to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products 
thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, Sec. 204, 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.
