§ 15-17-5-6 — Prohibitions regarding livestock and poultry products

Indiana § 15-17-5-6

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 17: ANIMAL HEALTH AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
• Ch. 5: Meat and Poultry Inspection; Humane Slaughter Act

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(a) A person may not do the following:
(1) Slaughter livestock or poultry or prepare any meat products or
poultry products that are capable of use as human food for
commerce, except in compliance with this chapter.
(2) Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for
transportation in commerce any meat products or poultry products
that are:
(A) capable of use as human food and are adulterated or
misbranded; or
(B) required to be inspected under this chapter unless the
products have been inspected and passed.
(3) With respect to articles that are capable of use as human food,
perform an act:
(A) while the articles are being transported in commerce or
held for sale after transportation in commerce; and
(B) that is intended to cause or has the effect of causing the
articles to be adulterated or misbranded.
(b) A person may not sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation,
or receive for transportation, in commerce, or from an official
establishment, slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet,
head, or viscera have not been removed in accordance with rules
adopted by the board except as authorized by rule.
[Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-24-8.]

Legislative History

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