Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

31A.05 APPLICATION OF INSPECTION PROVISIONS. Sections 31A.03 and 31A.04 apply to carcasses or parts of animals, poultry, or poultry food products, and meat or meat products derived from them that are usable as human food, when these items are brought into a slaughtering, meat can…

31A.06 INSPECTORS' DUTIES. The commissioner shall appoint inspectors to examine and inspect poultry food products and meat food products prepared in a slaughtering, meat canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, where the articles are prepared solely for int…

31A.07 MARKING OR LABELING OF INSPECTED ARTICLES. § Subdivision 1.Labeling; packing. When poultry, poultry food products, meat, or meat food products prepared for intrastate commerce which have been inspected and marked "Minnesota Inspected and Passed" is placed or packed in a ca…

31A.08 SANITATION. The commissioner shall have experts in sanitation or other competent inspectors inspect all slaughtering, meat canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishments in which animals are slaughtered and their poultry, poultry food products, meat, and m…

31A.09 NIGHTTIME INSPECTIONS. Inspections under section 31A.08 must be made at night as well as during the daytime if slaughtering of animals or preparation of food products is conducted at night. History: 1969 c 225 s 9; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1

31A.10 PROHIBITIONS. No person may, with respect to an animal, carcass, part of a carcass, poultry, poultry food product, meat, or meat food product: (1) slaughter an animal or prepare an article that is usable as human food, at any establishment preparing articles solely for int…

31A.11 FORGING OF OFFICIAL MARKS OR CERTIFICATES. § Subdivision 1.Unauthorized marks or certificates. No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person may cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make a device containing an official mark, simulation of an official mark, label bearing…

31A.12 HORSE MEAT. No person may sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in intrastate commerce, whole or parts of carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or meat or meat food products derived from them, unless they are plainly and co…

31A.13 INSPECTORS. The commissioner shall appoint inspectors to inspect animals, whole or parts of carcasses, poultry, poultry food products, meat, and meat food products the inspection of which is provided for by law, and the sanitary conditions of all establishments in which th…

31A.14 BRIBERY. A person who gives or receives anything of value in order to influence the performance of sections 31A.01 to 31A.31 violates section 609.42 or 609.43. History: 1969 c 225 s 14; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1

31A.15 EXEMPTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Inspection. The provisions of sections 31A.01 to 31A.16 requiring inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, poultry, poultry food products, and meat food products at establishments con…

31A.16 STORING AND HANDLING CONDITIONS. The commissioner may adopt rules prescribing conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, poultry, poultry food products, meat, and meat food products of animals usable as human food must be stored or otherwise handled by a person …

31A.17 ARTICLES NOT INTENDED AS HUMAN FOOD. Inspection must not be provided under sections 31A.01 to 31A.16 at an establishment for the slaughter of animals or the preparation of carcasses or parts or products of animals which are not intended for use as human food. Before they a…

31A.18 RECORDS. § Subdivision 1.Who must keep. The following classes of persons shall keep records that fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses: (1) persons in the business, for intrastate commerce, of slaughtering animals or preparing, freezing…

31A.19 REGISTRATION OF BUSINESSES. No person may engage in intrastate business as: (1) a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer; (2) a wholesaler of animal carcasses, carcass parts, or products of carcasses, intended for human food or other purposes; (3) a public ware…

31A.20 DEAD, DYING, DISABLED, OR DISEASED ANIMALS; RULES. This section covers dead, dying, or disabled animals and the whole or partial carcasses of animals that died other than by slaughter. The commissioner may adopt rules to assure that items covered by this section are not us…

31A.21 COOPERATION WITH FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. § Subdivision 1.Designation. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is the state agency responsible for cooperating with the United States Secretary of Agriculture under section 301 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and of the Poultry…

31A.22 REFUSAL OR WITHDRAWAL OF INSPECTION. The commissioner may, for a length of time the commissioner considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, refuse to provide, or withdraw, inspection service under sections 31A.01 to 31A.16 from an establishment. The com…

31A.23 DETENTION OF ANIMALS OR PRODUCTS. This section applies to a carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or meat food product of an animal, a product exempted from the definition of a meat food product, or a dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animal. If an authorized representative o…

31A.25 ACCESS BY INSPECTORS. To get information about suspected violations of law, the commissioner and the commissioner's assistants, inspectors, appointees, agents and employees must be given access to the following: (1) places where food or something else, the manufacture, sal…

31A.27 POWERS OF COMMISSIONER. § Subdivision 1.Gathering information. The commissioner may, for the purposes of this chapter: (1) gather and compile information concerning and investigate the organization, business, conduct, practices, and management of a person in intrastate com…

31A.29 COST OF ADMINISTRATION; OVERTIME WORK. The cost of administering this chapter, including the cost of inspection, must be paid from appropriations made for this purpose, except to the extent of federal contributions as provided in section 31A.21. The commissioner may pay em…

31A.31 CITATION. This chapter may be cited as the "Minnesota Meat and Poultry Inspection Act." History: 1969 c 225 s 31; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1; 1999 c 231 s 65