§ 15-17-5-1 — Purpose

The purpose of this chapter is to do the
following:
(1) Safeguard the public health and promote public welfare by:
(A) preventing the slaughter of dead, dying, disabled, or
diseased livestock or poultry for human food purposes; and
(B) preventing the manufacture, processing, storage,
transportation, and sale of adulterated meat and poultry
products for human food purposes.
(2) Eliminate the manufacture, processing, distribution, and sale
of fraudulent, misbranded, or deceptive products of livestock and
poultry origin.
(3) Prohibit the use of nonhumane methods in the slaughter of
livestock and poultry.
(4) Provide for humane slaughter of livestock and poultry and for
meat and poultry products inspection programs that will impose
and enforce requirements with respect to intrastate operations and
commerce that are at least equal to those imposed and enforced
under the federal Humane Slaughter Act (7 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.),
the federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), and the
federal Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.)
with respect to operations and transactions in interstate
commerce.
(5) Aid in the control of livestock and poultry diseases by
discovering the origins of diseased livestock and poultry found in
antemortem inspections and obtaining samples of blood and tissue
specimens as considered necessary for the control of livestock and
poultry diseases.
[Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-24-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.