§ 4.1-31-02 — Inspectors - Appointments - Duties

1. The commissioner shall appoint inspectors to examine and inspect meat food products
prepared solely for intrastate commerce in a slaughtering, meat canning, salting,
packing, or similar establishment. The inspections must take place at any time during
which the slaughtering of animals or the preparation of meat food products is being
conducted. Upon completing an inspection, the inspector shall mark, stamp, tag, or
label the product "North Dakota inspected and passed" if it is unadulterated or as
"North Dakota inspected and condemned" if the product is found to be adulterated.
2. The commissioner shall appoint inspectors to examine and inspect each slaughtering,
meat canning, salting, packing, or similar establishment in which meat food products
are prepared solely for intrastate commerce. The commissioner shall adopt rules of
sanitation applicable to these establishments. The commissioner may not allow any
meat food product from any facility not meeting the sanitary conditions required by
those rules to be labeled, marked, stamped, or tagged as "North Dakota inspected and
passed".
3. Meat food products inspected and passed under this chapter may be sold at retail in
this state.
4. Neither the commissioner, nor any inspector appointed by the commissioner, may
undertake any activity that is duplicative of an activity performed by meat inspectors of
the United States department of agriculture.