2018 US Code
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
21 U.S.C. § 644 (2018) |
§644. Regulation of transactions, transportation, or importation of 4–D animals to prevent use as human food |
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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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 |
section 644 |
2018 |
January 14, 2019 |
No |
standard |
81 Stat. 594 |
Public Law 90-201 |