2016 Mississippi Code
Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments
Chapter 35 - Meat Inspection
Article 1 - Inspection Requirements; Adulteration and Misbranding
§ 75-35-13. Inspection of products in slaughtering or similar establishments; access; inspection marks or labels; destruction of condemned products

For the purposes hereinbefore set forth, the commissioner shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose an examination and inspection of all meat food products prepared in any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, where such products are prepared, and for the purposes of an examination and inspection said inspectors shall have access at all times, by day or night, whether the establishment be operated or not, to every part of said establishment. Said inspectors shall mark, stamp, tag, or label as "Mississippi inspected and passed" or appropriately mark all such products found to be not adulterated; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag as "Mississippi inspected and condemned" or appropriately mark all such products found adulterated. All such condemned meat food products shall be destroyed for food purposes, as hereinbefore provided, and the commissioner may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to so destroy such condemned meat food products.