2012 US Code
Title 21 - Food and Drugs
Chapter 12 - MEAT INSPECTION (§§ 601 - 695)
Subchapter II - MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES (§§ 641 - 645)
Section 644 - Regulation of transactions, transportation, or importation of 4-D animals to prevent use as human food
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, 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 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 |
| Contains | section 644 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 15, 2013 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, §204, as added Pub. L. 90-201, §14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 594. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 81 Stat. 594 |
| Public Law Reference | Public Law 90-201 |
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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, §204, as added Pub. L. 90–201, §14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 594.)
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