Title FAC — California Food & Agric. Code

In addition to any other records required to be kept pursuant to this chapter, every transporter of inedible kitchen grease shall record and maintain for two years all of the following: (a) The name and address of each location from which the transporter obtained the inedible kit…

It is unlawful for any person to steal, misappropriate, contaminate, or damage inedible kitchen grease, or containers thereof.

A registered transporter or any other person shall not take possession of inedible kitchen grease from an unregistered transporter, an unlicensed collection center, or an unlicensed renderer, or knowingly take possession of stolen inedible kitchen grease.

The department may suspend or revoke a registration certificate, at any time, if it finds any of the following has occurred: (a) The registrant has sold or offered for sale to an unlicensed person, any inedible kitchen grease. (b) The registrant has stolen, misappropriated, conta…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), in addition to the registration fee required by Section 19312, the department may charge a fee necessary to cover the costs of administering this article. Any additional fee charged pursuant to this section shall not exceed five hundred …

It is the purpose of this article to prevent the sale and transfer of illegally obtained inedible kitchen grease, to protect the environment, to reduce blockages of public sewer systems, and to prevent the improper and illegal transportation and disposal of inedible kitchen greas…

The department is authorized to establish a system for documenting and tracking the transportation of inedible kitchen grease in order to ensure the proper disposal or recycling of that material.

A registered transporter of inedible kitchen grease shall, whenever any contract for the transportation of inedible kitchen grease under which that transporter provides transportation services is terminated or expires, notify the county health officer for the county in which the …

All persons engaged in the business of hauling of dead cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or other large domesticated animals or parts of the carcasses of any animal that died otherwise than by slaughter shall be licensed by the department.

The application for a license shall be in a form which is prescribed by the director and shall contain the following: (a) The name and address of the applicant. (b) All vehicles that are to be registered pursuant to Section 19354. (c) Such other information as the director may by…

The secretary, after notice and hearing, may refuse to issue a license unless he finds that the applicant: (a) Is properly equipped to engage in the business of dead animal hauling. (b) Has never been convicted of a felony involving adulterated or misbranded food. (c) Demonstrate…

No slaughterer shall own or control directly or indirectly, through stock ownership or control or otherwise, by himself or through his agents or employees, any interest in a person or company licensed to haul dead animals by Section 19320 unless his slaughterhouse is under state …

No slaughterer shall pick up or receive any dead animal at his slaughterhouse except those which have died en route and such animals shall be transported directly and without delay to a licensed rendering establishment, however apparently healthy animals transported by a person o…

Every establishment where animals are slaughtered for pet food, or where fresh or frozen pet food is processed or prepared shall be maintained and operated in a clean and sanitary manner.

All fresh or frozen meat, meat byproducts, horsemeat, and horsemeat byproducts sold or offered for sale to the public as pet food shall conform to the standards of this chapter or regulations promulgated by the director.

Any carcasses or parts or products of animals which are not intended for use as human food shall prior to their being offered for sale or transportation, be denatured or otherwise identified as prescribed by regulations of the director to prevent their use as human food. No perso…

The Legislature finds that the use in pet food of animals that died from reasons other than slaughtering and pet food prepared from diseased animals or not prepared under sanitary conditions creates a public health hazard to the citizens and animals of this state.

(a) Unless a waiver is granted by the State Veterinarian in conjunction with implementation of Section 9562 or a declaration of a state of emergency or local emergency, as defined in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 8558 of the Government Code, pursuant to the California Emerg…

The State Veterinarian is authorized to approve temporary research projects for the purpose of determining whether alternative methods of animal tissue disposal are capable of destroying organisms that cause disease and can be used effectively to protect public health and agricul…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 19348 and regulations adopted by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery pursuant to Section 43020 of the Public Resources Code, including, but not limited to, Section 17855.2 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, any part of a …

Every person who transports a live horse or horses to a slaughterhouse subject to licensing under this chapter shall provide such horse or horses with adequate food and water. A violation of this section shall constitute cruelty to an animal within the meaning of Section 597a of …

All trucks and every licensed premises of a dead animal hauler shall be inspected by the bureau at least once a year before the license is renewed and at other times as the secretary deems necessary.

Vehicles used for dead animal hauling shall be completely unloaded, cleaned, and disinfected at the rendering plant.

Inspectors and duly authorized agents of the state, city, county, and city and county health departments shall have free access at all hours of operation to premises where animals are slaughtered, or horsemeat or other meat products are processed, prepared, packed for pet food, o…

Horses, mules, burros, cattle, sheep, goats and swine may be slaughtered on the premises of a pet food slaughterer.

A dead animal hauler shall register each vehicle used to transport dead animals with the bureau.

No licensee shall refuse to permit entry or inspection by a representative of the department, or to permit the taking of a sample of products.

No meat or meat byproduct or horsemeat or horsemeat byproduct shall be sold or offered for sale as pet food or for pet food purposes by any person under any name or other marking or labeling which is false or misleading, or in any container of a misleading form or size, but estab…

All labels or other identification marks or methods for articles subject to this chapter shall be approved by the director in advance of their use.

No person shall sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation any meat or meat byproduct, horsemeat, or horsemeat byproduct subject to this article that is misbranded as prescribed by regulation of the director.

Only horsemeat inspected by state or federal agents shall be sold or offered for sale for human consumption. When horsemeat is offered for sale for human consumption there shall be displayed prominently in connection therewith and immediately adjacent thereto a sign with letters …

Every restaurant, cafe, or other public eating place offering or serving horsemeat for human consumption shall have stamped on all menus, in green ink letters not less than one-half inch in height and one-quarter inch in width the words “horsemeat served here”; likewise a placard…

Horsemeat or fresh or frozen pet food shall not be packed, stored or kept in any retail establishment with or in close proximity with any food product which is or shall be offered for human consumption irrespective of its type or nature.

Horsemeat or fresh or frozen pet food shall be kept and stored in a separate unit in a retail establishment provided for that purpose. A sign which reads “horsemeat” with letters two inches high and approximately one inch wide shall be conspicuously displayed so that it can readi…

All inspected horsemeat shall bear a tag or label with the words “inspected horsemeat,” “U.S. government-inspected horsemeat,” “state-inspected horsemeat,” or “municipally inspected horsemeat,” depending upon the type of inspection made of the product with letters printed thereon…

All horsemeat intended for pet food purposes not produced in the State of California shall be denatured before entering the state and shall meet all requirements of this chapter and the regulations promulgated thereunder. All inspected horsemeat not produced in the State of Calif…

Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent any city, city and county, or county from regulating or prohibiting by ordinance the sale of horsemeat in their respective communities.

The director may adopt rules or regulations necessary to carry out the purpose of this chapter.

The director shall by regulation promulgate minimum standards for the fitness of pet food so that the health of the animals and citizens of this state will not be endangered by unwholesome or tainted animal food.

The director may establish by regulation, requirements to insure that vehicles used to transport dead animals and carcasses or parts or products of animals which have died other than by slaughter will not create a public health problem and that such animals, carcasses or parts or…

The director shall establish by regulation, requirements for the slaughter of animals and inspection of pet food, to insure that it is wholesome, untainted, not adulterated, properly labeled, and fit for pet food, and for the handling and disposal of condemned meat or meat byprod…

The director shall establish by regulation the conditions under which carcasses or parts or products of animals for pet food may be processed, transported, and stored so as to prevent diversion into human food channels.

The director may establish regulations to permit the sale and distribution of food for crab bait and for the feeding of mink and zoo animals under conditions which will conform to the purposes of this chapter but without compliance with such portions thereof which the director fi…

Any person that slaughters any horse, mule, burro, sheep, goats, swine or any other bovine for use as pet food, or who by purchase or otherwise acquires possession of the meat of any horse, mule, burro, swine or bovine, and that sells or otherwise disposes of such meat for use as…

This article does not apply to any of the following: (a) Retail sales of any fresh or processed meat or meat product in a quantity of five pounds or less to any one person. (b) Any canned or prepackaged meat or meat product in any package of five pounds or less which is conspicuo…

All horsemeat and animal food records shall be open at all times during the hours of operation to the inspection of the director, any health officer or sanitation inspector.

It is unlawful for any person that is required to keep horsemeat and pet food records to fail to keep such records, or to fail or refuse to permit an authorized inspection of the horsemeat and pet food records.

Every dead animal hauler shall keep a record when and where each carcass is picked up and delivered. The record shall be kept for a period of one year, and open to inspection by any agent of the department.

There is in the Department of Agriculture a compliance and evaluation team.

The compliance and evaluation team’s primary duty shall be the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the regulations made pursuant thereto.