§ 20-60-210 — Inspection procedures

Arkansas § 20-60-210

• Jurisdiction: Arkansas
• Title: 20

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(a) For the purpose of preventing the entry into or movement in intrastate commerce of any livestock carcass, part of a livestock carcass, or meat food product that is unwholesome or adulterated and is intended for use as human food, the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, if and to the extent considered by him or her necessary, cause to be made by inspectors antemortem inspection of livestock in any official establishment where livestock are slaughtered for intrastate commerce. (b) (1) For the purpose stated in subsection (a) of this section, the secretary, whenever slaughtering or other processing operations are being conducted, shall cause to be made by inspectors postmortem inspection of the livestock carcass or part of the livestock carcass of each animal slaughtered in any official establishment. (2) The secretary shall cause to be made by inspectors an inspection of all meat food products processed in any official establishment in which meat food products are processed for intrastate commerce. (c) The secretary shall also cause, at any time, such quarantine, segregation, and reinspection of livestock, livestock carcasses, parts of livestock carcasses, and meat food products in official establishments as he or she deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter. (d) (1) All livestock carcasses, parts of livestock carcasses, and meat food products found by an inspector to be unwholesome or adulterated in any official establishment shall: (A) Be condemned; and (B) If no appeal is taken from the determination of condemnation, be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector. (2) However, meat or meat food products that may be made wholesome and unadulterated by reprocessing need not be condemned and destroyed if reprocessed under the supervision of an inspector and are thereafter found by an inspector to be wholesome and unadulterated. (3) (A) If any appeal is taken from the determination of condemnation under subdivision (d)(1) of this section, the meat or meat food products shall be appropriately marked and segregated pending completion of an appeal inspection. (B) If the determination of condemnation is sustained under subdivision (d)(1) of this section, the meat or meat food products shall be destroyed for human food purposes under the supervision of an inspector.

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2021, No. 418,§ 2, eff. 3/23/2021. Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 5079, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 1967, No. 320, § 4; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-2004.