Title 21, Food and DrugsRelease 119-102
§618 Delivery of Inspectors’ Certificates, and of Copies
Title 21 › CHAPTER 12 — MEAT INSPECTION › SUBCHAPTER I — INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING › § 618
Summary
Inspectors must issue official certificates about the condition of carcasses and products from animals covered by the law. One copy of each certificate must be filed with the Department of Agriculture, another given to the owner or shipper, and if the animals or their carcasses or products are sent abroad, a third copy must be given to the ship’s chief officer.
Full Legal Text
Title 21, §618
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The inspectors provided for under this subchapter shall be authorized to give official certificates of the condition of the carcasses and products of amenable species; and one copy of every certificate granted under the provisions of this chapter shall be filed in the Department of Agriculture, another copy shall be delivered to the owner or shipper, and when the amenable species, or their carcasses and products are sent abroad, a third copy shall be delivered to the chief officer of the vessel on which the shipment shall be made.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification “Provided for under this subchapter” was in the original “provided for herein”. Section was formerly classified to section 86 of this title.
Amendments
2005—Pub. L. 109–97 substituted “amenable species” for “cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” in two places. 2002—Pub. L. 107–171 substituted “of the carcasses and products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” for “of the cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines, their carcasses and products as described in this subchapter”. 1967—Pub. L. 90–201, § 12(a), (h), included horses, mules, and other equines in the list of animals and struck out “sound and wholesome” before “conditions”, respectively.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2005 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 109–97 effective the day after 120 days after Nov. 10, 2005, see section 798(b) of Pub. L. 109–97, set out as a note under section 601 of this title.
Effective Date
of 1967 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 90–201 effective Dec. 15, 1967, except that with respect to equines (other than horses) and their carcasses and parts thereof, meat, and meat food products thereof, amendment effective upon expiration of sixty days after Dec. 15, 1967, see section 20(b) of Pub. L. 90–201, set out as an
Effective Date
note under section 601 of this title.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
21 U.S.C. § 618
Title 21, Food and Drugs
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102