Iowa § 189A.4 Exemptions

Iowa Statutes

§ 189A.4 — Exemptions

Iowa § 189A.4

Title VAGRICULTURE

Ch. 189AMEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION

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Iowa Code § 189A.4 (2026).

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1.In order to accomplish the objective of this chapter, the secretary may exempt the following types of operations from inspection:

a.Slaughtering and preparation by any person of livestock and poultry of the person’s own raising exclusively for use by the person and members of the person’s household, and the person’s nonpaying guests and employees.

b.Any other operations which the secretary may determine would best be exempted to further the purposes of this chapter, to the extent such exemptions conform to the federal Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act and the regulations thereunder.

2.

a.The secretary may allow a poultry establishment at which inspection is maintained to engage in custom operations, and exempt from inspection any poultry slaughtered

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1. In order to accomplish the objective of this chapter, the secretary may exempt the
following types of operations from inspection:
a. Slaughtering and preparation by any person of livestock and poultry of the person’s
own raising exclusively for use by the person and members of the person’s household, and
the person’s nonpaying guests and employees.
b. Any other operations which the secretary may determine would best be exempted to
further the purposes of this chapter, to the extent such exemptions conform to the federal
Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act and the regulations
thereunder.
2. a. The secretary may allow a poultry establishment at which inspection is maintained
to engage in custom operations, and exempt from inspection any poultry slaughtered or
any poultry or poultry products otherwise prepared on such custom basis, provided that
any carcasses, parts thereof, poultry, or poultry products wherever handled on a custom
basis, or any containers or packages containing such articles, are separated at all times from
carcasses, parts thereof, poultry, or poultry products prepared for sale, and that all such
articles prepared on a custom basis, or any containers or packages containing such articles,
are plainly marked “Not for Sale” immediately after being prepared and kept so identified
until delivered to the owner, and that the establishment conducting the custom operation is
maintained and operated in a sanitary manner.
b. (1) Paragraph “a” shall be implemented, including administered and enforced by the
department of agriculture and land stewardship, on and after the publication date of the issue
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oftheIowaadministrativebulletinthatincludesanoticebythesecretaryofagriculturestating
any of the following:
(a) Federal law, including a statute or regulation, allows for the implementation.
(b) The United States department of agriculture has delivered to the department of
agriculture and land stewardship an official approval of the implementation in writing.
(2) The department of agriculture and land stewardship shall send a copy of the notice
to the Iowa Code editor at least two weeks prior to the publication date of the Iowa
administrative bulletin as described in subparagraph (1).
(3) This paragraph is repealed on the date that paragraph “a” is implemented.