Title 3, Agriculture

A. A license shall be obtained from the division before slaughtering a horse for human consumption. B. Application for a license to conduct a slaughterhouse for the slaughter of horses for human consumption shall be submitted to the division on a form prescribed by the department…

A. The slaughtering of horses and preparation, processing, packing and storing of horsemeat and horsemeat products shall be conducted in a house or establishment separate from a house or establishment in which cattle, sheep, swine or goats are slaughtered or prepared, or any meat…

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, dourin…

A. Carcasses of horses slaughtered for human consumption shall be stamped on each standard cut, "horsemeat." All horsemeat food products shall be conspicuously branded, marked, tagged or labeled, "horsemeat" or "horsemeat product." B. The labels for horsemeat or horsemeat food pr…

A. It is unlawful to offer horsemeat for sale for human consumption unless there is prominently displayed in conjunction therewith a sign bearing the words, in letters not less than eight inches in height and three inches in width, "horsemeat for human consumption." A restaurant …

All horsemeat or horsemeat products sold at retail shall be sold from a case separate from that which contains the flesh of cattle.

Horsemeat not offered for sale for human consumption which is cooked and packed in a hermetically sealed container or frozen in a properly labeled package and kept intact in the original container may be sold in retail establishments where other meats are sold for human consumpti…

Horsemeat shall not be served in or sold to state institutions for human consumption.

It is unlawful to slaughter a horse for human consumption, or to prepare, process, can, cure, smoke, salt, render or pack, or sell or offer for sale for human consumption horsemeat or any product derived in whole or in part therefrom except in accordance with the provisions of th…

A. A person who knowingly sells horsemeat as beef or who sells beef or beef products adulterated with horsemeat as beef or who violates section 3-2123, subsection A or section 3-2127 is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. B. Violation of any provision of this article other than that…

No person, firm or corporation shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation any carcasses of mules, or equines other than horses, or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat food products thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuou…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Adulterated" shall apply to any poultry product under one or more of the following circumstances if: (a) It bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health, but in case th…

A. The department is designated as the state agency which shall be responsible for cooperating with the secretary of agriculture of the United States under the provisions of section 5 of the federal poultry products inspection act. B. In such cooperative efforts, the department i…

A. For the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in intrastate commerce of any poultry product which is capable of use as human food and is adulterated, the division shall, where and to the extent considered by it necessary, cause to be made by inspectors antem…

A. Each official establishment slaughtering poultry or processing poultry products solely for intrastate commerce shall be operated in accordance with such sanitary practices as are required by rules adopted by the director for the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or …

A. All poultry products inspected at any official establishment and found to be not adulterated shall at the time they leave the establishment bear, in distinctly legible form, on their shipping containers and immediate containers as the division may require the information requi…

A. A person shall not: 1. Slaughter any poultry or process any poultry products which are capable of use as human food at any establishment processing any such articles solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter. 2. Sell, transport,…

No establishment processing poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce shall process any poultry or poultry product capable of use as human food except in compliance with this chapter.

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 intra…

A. Any person who violates section 3-2156, 3-2157, 3-2158 or 3-2161 is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor, but if such violation involves intent to defraud, or any distribution or attempted distribution of an article that is adulterated, except as defined in section 3-2151, paragrap…

Before any violation of this article is reported by the department for institution of a criminal proceeding, the person against whom such proceeding is contemplated shall be given reasonable notice of the alleged violation and opportunity to present his views orally or in writing…

A. The director may by rule prescribe conditions under which poultry products capable of use as human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing or transporting, in or for intrastate commerce, such articl…

A. The following shall be exempted from the provisions of this article: 1. Retail dealers with respect to poultry products sold directly to consumers in individual retail stores, if the only processing operation performed by such retail dealers is the cutting up of poultry produc…

The department may limit the entry of poultry products and other materials into any official establishment under such conditions as it may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such inspected establishments will be consistent with the purposes of this …

A. The director may refuse to provide or may withdraw inspection service with respect to any establishment if he determines, after an opportunity for a hearing, that such applicant or recipient is unfit to engage in any business requiring inspection because the applicant or recip…

Whenever any poultry product, or any product exempted from the definition of a poultry product, or any dead, dying, disabled or diseased poultry is found by any authorized representatives of the department upon any premises where it is held for purposes of, or during or after dis…

A. Any poultry product or any dead, dying or disabled or diseased poultry that is being transported in intrastate commerce, or is held for sale in this state after such transportation, and is or has been processed, sold, transported or otherwise distributed or offered or received…

The director is vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce and to prevent and restrain violations, and shall have jurisdiction in all other kinds of cases arising under this article, except as provided in section 3-2155 or 3-2164. All proceedings for the enforcement or to r…

The cost of inspection shall be borne by this state, except as provided in section 3-2152 and except that the cost of overtime and holiday work performed in establishments subject to the provisions of this article, at such rates as the director may determine, shall be borne by su…

Nothing in this article shall be construed to modify or repeal any provision of chapter 5 of this title, relating to the regulation of eggs and egg products.