3-2046. Meat inspection rules; violation;
classification
A. The director shall adopt reasonable rules necessary to assure that all meat and
meat products subject to inspection under this article which are to be sold or
distributed for human consumption are free from unwholesome, poisonous or other foreign
substances and filth, insects or disease causing organisms. The rules shall provide
reasonably necessary measures governing the production, processing, labeling, storing,
handling and transportation of such products. The rules shall prescribe minimum
standards for the sanitary facilities and conditions which shall be maintained at any
plant, packing house or abattoir and in any truck or other vehicle in which meat or meat
products are produced, processed, stored, handled or transported.
B. The director upon the advice of the chief veterinary meat inspector shall adopt
reasonable rules, including, but not limited to, what the antemortem and postmortem
inspection shall consist of, to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The rules shall
conform so far as possible to the rules governing meat inspection of the United States
department of agriculture. To the extent deemed appropriate by the director the rules
may incorporate by reference existing federal meat inspection regulations, but in no case
shall the rules exceed the requirements of the United States department of
agriculture. All rules adopted to implement this section shall be adopted in compliance
with title 41, chapter 6.
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