3-2124. Inspection of horses before and after
slaughter; condemnation of unfit products
A. There shall be an antemortem and a postmortem inspection of each horse
slaughtered.
B. A horse found either upon antemortem or postmortem inspection or examination to
be afflicted with strangles, purpura, hemorrhagica, azoturia, forage poison or
cerebrospina meningitis, dourine, acute influenza, generalized osteoporosis, glanders,
farcy or other malignant disorder, acute inflammatory lameness or extensive fistula shall
be condemned. A horse suspected, upon antemortem inspection, of being infected with
glanders shall be tested with mallein, and a horse which on physical examination is
suspected of being infected with dourine, shall be held for further examination or for
such test as the state veterinarian prescribes. A horse or horsemeat product found
unwholesome, unclean, unsound or otherwise unfit for human consumption shall be condemned
and the inspector may order it destroyed.
C. All horsemeat sold for human consumption shall be inspected by the state
veterinarian or a deputy thereof. The inspector and authorized employees of the
department and the department of health services shall have access, for purposes of
inspection, to any place in which horses are being slaughtered or horsemeat is being
processed, prepared, packed or offered for sale.
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