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[CITE: 21USC645]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES
 
Sec. 645. Federal provisions applicable to State or Territorial 
        business transactions of a local nature and not subject to local 
        authority
        
    The authority conferred on the Secretary by section 642, 643, or 644 
of this title with respect to persons, firms, and corporations engaged 
in the specified kinds of business in or for commerce may be exercised 
with respect to persons, firms, or corporations engaged, in any State or 
organized Territory, in such kinds of business but not in or for 
commerce, whenever the Secretary determines, after consultation with an 
appropriate advisory committee provided for in section 661 of this 
title, that the State or territory does not have at least equal 
authority under its laws or such authority is not exercised in a manner 
to effectuate the purposes of this chapter including the State providing 
for the Secretary or his representative being afforded access to such 
places of business and the facilities, inventories, and records thereof, 
and the taking of reasonable samples, where he determines necessary in 
carrying out his responsibilities under this chapter; and in such case 
the provisions of section 642, 643, or 644 of this title, respectively, 
shall apply to such persons, firms, and corporations to the same extent 
and in the same manner as if they were engaged in such business in or 
for commerce and the transactions involved were in commerce.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, Sec. 205, as added Pub. L. 90-201, 
Sec. 14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 594.)
