§ 189A.5 — Veterinarians and inspectors

Iowa § 189A.5

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title V: AGRICULTURE
• Ch. 189A: MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION

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1. The secretary shall administer this chapter and may appoint a person to act as the
secretary’s designee in the administration of this chapter.
a. The secretary shall employ veterinarians licensed in the state of Iowa as veterinary
inspectors.
b. The secretary is also authorized to employ as meat inspectors other persons who
have qualified and are skilled in the inspection of meat and poultry products and any other
additional employees the secretary deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this
chapter. The meat inspectors shall be under the supervision of the secretary’s designee or a
veterinary inspector if no designee is appointed.
c. The secretary may also enter into contracts with qualified individuals to perform
inspection services as the secretary may designate for a fee per head or per unit volume to
be determined by the secretary provided the persons are not employed in an establishment
in which the inspection takes place.
d. The secretary may utilize any employee, agent, or equipment of the department in
the enforcement of this chapter, and may assign to inspectors other duties related to the
acceptance of meat and poultry products.
2. In order to accomplish the objective stated in section 189A.1A, the secretary shall do
any of the following:
a. By regulations require antemortem and postmortem inspections, quarantine,
segregation, and reinspections with respect to the slaughter of livestock and poultry and the
preparation of livestock products and poultry products at all establishments in this state,
except those exempted by section 189A.4, at which livestock or poultry are slaughtered or
livestock or poultry products are prepared for human food solely for distribution in intrastate
commerce.
b. By regulations require the identification of livestock and poultry for inspection
purposes and the marking and labeling of livestock products or poultry products or their
containers, orboth, as“IowaInspectedandPassed”iftheproductsarefounduponinspection
to be not adulterated, and as “Iowa Inspected and Condemned” if they are found upon
inspection to be adulterated; and the destruction for food purposes of all such condemned
products under the supervision of an inspector.
c. Prohibittheentryintoofficialestablishmentsoflivestockproductsandpoultryproducts
not prepared under federal inspection or inspection pursuant to this chapter and further limit
the entry of such articles and other materials into such establishments under such conditions
as the secretary deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
d. By regulations require that when livestock products and poultry products leave official
establishments they shall bear directly thereon or on their containers, or both, all information
required by section 189A.2, subsection 17; and require approval of all labeling and containers
to be used for such products when sold or transported in intrastate commerce to assure that
they comply with the requirements of this chapter.
e. Investigate the sanitary conditions of each establishment within paragraph “a” of
this subsection and withdraw or otherwise refuse to provide inspection service at any such
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establishment where the sanitary conditions are such as to render adulterated any livestock
products or poultry products prepared or handled at the establishment.
f. Prescribe regulations relating to sanitation for all establishments required to have
inspection under paragraph “a” of this subsection.
g. By regulations require that both of the following classes of persons shall keep such
records and for such periods as are specified in the regulations to fully and correctly disclose
all transactions involved in their business, and to afford the secretary and the secretary’s
representatives, including representatives of other governmental agencies designated by
the secretary, access to such places of business, and opportunity at all reasonable times
to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy the records, and to take
reasonable samples of the inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor:
(1) Any person that engages in or for intrastate commerce in the business of slaughtering
any livestock or poultry, or preparing, freezing, packaging or labeling, buying or selling, as
a broker, wholesaler, or otherwise, transporting, or storing any livestock products or poultry
products for human or animal food.
(2) Any person that engages in or for intrastate commerce in business as a renderer or
in the business of buying, selling, or transporting any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased
livestock or poultry or parts of the carcasses of any such animals, including poultry, that died
otherwise than by slaughter.

Legislative History

[C66, §170.20, 189A.5, 189A.7, 189A.8, 189A.10; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §189A.5]