§624 Storage and handling regulations; violations; exemption of establishments subject to non-Federal jurisdiction

Summary

The Secretary can create rules about how carcasses, meat, and meat products from animals like cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, horses, mules, and other equines must be stored and handled by businesses that buy, sell, freeze, store, transport, or import them. The rules are to make sure the meat is not contaminated or mislabeled when sold to consumers. Breaking those rules is illegal. Those rules do not apply to retail stores or similar local establishments if the State or Territory already regulates their storage and handling and the Secretary, after talking with the advisory committee, agrees the local rules are good enough.