3-2158. Articles not intended for human food;
requirements for and regulation of intrastate commerce in dead,
dying, disabled or diseased poultry; registration
A. Inspection shall not be provided at any establishment for the slaughter of
poultry or the processing of any carcasses or parts or products of poultry which are not
intended for use as human food, but such articles shall, prior to their offer for sale or
transportation in intrastate commerce, unless naturally inedible by humans, be denatured
or otherwise identified as prescribed by rules of the director to deter their use for
human food. No person shall buy, sell, transport or offer for sale or transportation or
receive for transportation in intrastate commerce any poultry carcasses or parts or
products thereof which are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured
or otherwise identified as required by the rules of the director or are naturally
inedible by humans.
B. The following classes of persons shall, for such period of time as the director
may by rules prescribe, but not to exceed two years unless otherwise directed by the
director for good cause shown, keep such records as are properly necessary for the
effective enforcement of this article in order to insure against adulterated or
misbranded poultry products for the consumer and all persons subject to such requirements
shall at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the
department, afford such representative access to their places of business and opportunity
to examine the facilities, and inventory thereof, and to take reasonable samples of their
inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor:
1. Class 1. Any person that engages in the business of slaughtering any poultry or
processing, freezing, packaging or labeling any carcasses or parts or products of
carcasses of any poultry for intrastate commerce for use as human food or animal food.
2. Class 2. Any person that engages in the business of buying or selling as
poultry products brokers, wholesalers or otherwise or transporting in intrastate commerce
or storing in or for intrastate commerce any carcasses, or parts or products of
carcasses, of any poultry.
3. Class 3. Any person that engages in business in or for intrastate commerce as a
renderer, or engages in the business of buying, selling or transporting in intrastate
commerce any dead, dying, disabled or diseased poultry or parts of the carcasses of any
poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter.
C. No person shall engage in business in or for intrastate commerce as a poultry
products broker, renderer or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in
intrastate commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the
carcasses, of any poultry, whether intended for human food or other purposes, or engage
in business as a public warehouseman storing any such articles in or for intrastate
commerce, or engage in the business of buying, selling or transporting in intrastate
commerce any dead, dying, disabled or diseased poultry, or parts of the carcasses of any
poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless, when required by rules of the
director, he has registered with the division his name and the address of each place of
business at which and all trade names under which he conducts such business.
D. No person engaged in the business of buying, selling or transporting in
intrastate commerce dead, dying, disabled or diseased poultry, or any parts of the
carcasses of any poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell,
transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in intrastate
commerce any dead, dying, disabled or diseased poultry or parts of the carcasses of any
poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation
is made in accordance with such rules as the director may prescribe to assure that such
poultry, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used
for human food.
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