Title 21, Food and DrugsRelease 119-102

§643 Registration of Business, Name of Person, and Trade Names

Title 21 › CHAPTER 12 — MEAT INSPECTION › SUBCHAPTER II — MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES › § 643

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

People, firms, or companies that do certain meat- or animal-product businesses must register their name, every business address, and all trade names with the Secretary when the Secretary's rules require it. This covers meat brokers, renderers, makers of animal food, wholesalers or warehouse operators handling carcasses or carcass parts, and anyone buying, selling, transporting, or importing dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of animals that died other than by slaughter.

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Title 21, §643

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No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in business, in or for commerce, as a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, whether intended for human food or other purposes, or engage in business as a public warehouseman storing any such articles in or for commerce, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in commerce, or importing, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals of the specified kinds, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless, when required by regulations of the Secretary, he has registered with the Secretary his name, and the address of each place of business at which, and all trade names under which, he conducts such business.

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21 U.S.C. § 643

Title 21, Food and Drugs

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102