2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food
Chapter 616 - General and Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 616.910 - Donations of meat; rules.

Universal Citation:
OR Rev Stat § 616.910 (2025)
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The State Department of Agriculture shall adopt rules allowing donations to charitable organizations, including low-income nutritional centers, and to other organizations that offer food for noncommercial purposes, of meat that is:

(1) Processed by a person licensed by the department under ORS chapter 603 to slaughter meat animals and subject to federal meat inspection.

(2) Processed under a federally approved program of state inspection for the processing and sale of meat products from amenable species and of poultry, as described in ORS 619.042.

(3) Processed at a custom processing establishment, or slaughtered at a custom slaughtering establishment, pursuant to ORS 619.010 to 619.026 and 619.036 to 619.066. [2023 c.153 §1; 2025 c.35 §2]

Note: 616.910 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 616 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.

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