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Title 21 - Food and Drugs (Sections 1 - 2252)
Chapter 12 - Meat Inspection (Sections 601 - 695)
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Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS CHAPTER 12 - MEAT INSPECTION |
Contains | sections 601 to 695 |
Date | 2014 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Inspection Requirements; Adulteration and Misbranding (Sections 601 - 625)
- Sec. 601 - Definitions
- Sec. 602 - Congressional statement of findings
- Sec. 603 - Examination of animals prior to slaughter; use of humane methods
- Sec. 604 - Post mortem examination of carcasses and marking or labeling; destruction of carcasses condemned; reinspection
- Sec. 605 - Examination of carcasses brought into slaughtering or packing establishments, and of meat food products issued from and returned thereto; conditions for entry
- Sec. 606 - Inspection and labeling of meat food products
- Sec. 607 - Labeling, marking, and container requirements
- Sec. 608 - Sanitary inspection and regulation of slaughtering and packing establishments; rejection of adulterated meat or meat food products
- Sec. 609 - Examination of animals and food products thereof, slaughtered and prepared during nighttime
- Sec. 610 - Prohibited acts
- Sec. 611 - Devices, marks, labels, and certificates; simulations
- Sec. 612 - Notification
- Sec. 613 - Plans and reassessments
- Sec. 614 - Repealed. Pub. L. 107-171, title X, ยง10418(a)(19), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 508
- Sec. 615 - Inspection of carcasses, meat of which is intended for export
- Sec. 616 - Inspectors of carcasses, etc., meat of which is intended for export; certificates of condition
- Sec. 617 - Clearance prohibited to vessel carrying meat for export without inspector's certificate
- Sec. 618 - Delivery of inspectors' certificates, and of copies
- Sec. 619 - Marking, labeling, or other identification to show kinds of animals from which derived; separate establishments for preparation and slaughtering activities
- Sec. 620 - Imports
- Sec. 621 - Inspectors to make examinations provided for; appointment; duties; regulations
- Sec. 622 - Bribery of or gifts to inspectors or other officers and acceptance of gifts
- Sec. 623 - Exemptions from inspection requirements
- Sec. 624 - Storage and handling regulations; violations; exemption of establishments subject to non-Federal jurisdiction
- Sec. 625 - Inapplicability of certain requirements to catfish
- Subchapter II - Meat Processors and Related Industries (Sections 641 - 645)
- Sec. 641 - Prohibition of subchapter I inspection of articles not intended for use as human food; denaturation or other identification prior to distribution in commerce; inedible articles
- Sec. 642 - Recordkeeping requirements
- Sec. 643 - Registration of business, name of person, and trade names
- Sec. 644 - Regulation of transactions, transportation, or importation of 4-D animals to prevent use as human food
- Sec. 645 - Federal provisions applicable to State or Territorial business transactions of a local nature and not subject to local authority
- Subchapter III - Federal and State Cooperation (Sections 661 - 661)
- Subchapter IV - Auxiliary Provisions (Sections 671 - 680)
- Sec. 671 - Inspection services; refusal or withdrawal; hearing; business unfitness based upon certain convictions; other provisions for withdrawal of services unaffected; responsible connection with business; finality of Secretary's actions; judicial review; record
- Sec. 672 - Administrative detention; duration; pending judicial proceedings; notification of governmental authorities; release
- Sec. 673 - Seizure and condemnation
- Sec. 674 - Federal court jurisdiction of enforcement and injunction proceedings and other kinds of cases; limitations of section 607(e) of this title
- Sec. 675 - Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain persons; murder; protection of such persons
- Sec. 676 - Violations
- Sec. 677 - Other Federal laws applicable for administration and enforcement of chapter; location of inquiries; jurisdiction of Federal courts
- Sec. 678 - Non-Federal jurisdiction of federally regulated matters; prohibition of additional or different requirements for establishments with inspection services and as to marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredients; recordkeeping and related requirements; concurrent jurisdiction over distribution for human food purposes of adulterated or misbranded and imported articles; other matters
- Sec. 679 - Application of Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Sec. 679a - Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel
- Sec. 679b - Pasteurization of meat and poultry
- Sec. 679c - Expansion of Food Safety Inspection Service activities
- Sec. 680 - Authorization of appropriations
- Subchapter IV-A - Inspections by Federal and State Agencies (Sections 683 - 683)
- Subchapter V - Miscellaneous Provisions (Sections 691 - 695)
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