65-6a18. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) “Secretary” means the secretary of agriculture. (b) “Person” means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other business unit or governmental entity. (c) “Broker” means any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products […]
65-6a19. Cooperation with U.S. department of agriculture. The secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized to cooperate with the United States department of agriculture in the enforcement of this act and the federal meat and poultry inspection acts. History: L. 1969, ch. 296, § 2; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 90; July 1.
65-6a20. Inspection of livestock, rabbits and poultry before slaughter; separate slaughter for diseased; inspection of carcasses. (a) For the purpose of preventing the use in intrastate commerce of meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry products which are adulterated, the secretary shall make an examination and inspection, by inspectors appointed for such purpose, […]
65-6a21. Post-mortem inspection of carcasses capable of use as human food; marking or labeling; destruction of adulterated carcasses for food purposes; removal of inspectors for failure to destroy. For the purposes of the Kansas meat and poultry inspection act, the secretary shall cause to be made, by inspectors appointed therefor, a post-mortem examination and inspection […]
65-6a22. Inspection of carcasses prior to entry into department for processing; inspection of meat and poultry food products returned to slaughtering or processing establishment; limitation of entry of carcasses and products. The provisions of K.S.A. 65-6a21 and amendments thereto shall apply to all carcasses or parts of carcasses of livestock, domestic rabbits and poultry, or […]
65-6a23. Inspection of meat and poultry food products; inspectors’ ingress and egress; marking or labeling of products; destruction of adulterated products; removal of inspectors. For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the secretary shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose an examination and inspection of all meat food products and poultry products […]
65-6a24. Packaged meat and poultry products; labeling and container standards; violations, procedure; hearing; judicial review. (a) When any meat, meat food product, poultry or poultry product prepared for intrastate commerce which has been inspected and marked “Kansas inspected and passed” shall be placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas or other receptacle or […]
65-6a25. Sanitary conditions of establishments; sanitation rules and regulations; adulterated meat, poultry or products. The secretary shall cause to be made, by veterinarians or by other competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, canning, salting, packing or similar establishments in which livestock, domestic rabbits or poultry are slaughtered and in which the meat and meat […]
65-6a26. Inspection during both day and nighttime operation; inspection fee schedule; overtime payment. The secretary shall cause an examination and inspection of all livestock, domestic rabbits and poultry, and the food products thereof, which are slaughtered and prepared in establishments for the purposes of intrastate commerce, to be made during the nighttime as well as […]
65-6a27. Violations of act. (a) It shall be a violation of this act for any person: (1) To slaughter any livestock, domestic rabbits or poultry, except in compliance with this act; (2) to prepare any meat, meat food product, poultry or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, at any establishment preparing […]
65-6a28. Acts involving official marks, labels and certificates or simulation thereof prohibited. (a) No brand manufacturer, printer or other person shall cast, print, lithograph or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate or simulation thereof, except […]
65-6a29. Horses, mules and rabbits; labeling of carcass or products; preparation in separate establishment. No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation in intrastate commerce any carcasses of horses, mules or other equines, domestic rabbits or parts of such carcasses or the meat or meat food products thereof, unless […]
65-6a30. Meat and poultry inspection program established; personnel; inspection duties; rules and regulations. (a) There shall be established by the secretary of agriculture a meat and poultry inspection program to enforce the provisions of the Kansas meat and poultry inspection act. The program shall be under the supervision of the secretary of agriculture and the […]
65-6a31. Exceptions to inspection requirements; custom slaughtering. (a) The provisions of this act shall not apply: (1) To the slaughtering by any person of animals of such person’s own raising or to the preparing by the slaughterer or to the transporting in intrastate commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat food products or poultry products […]
65-6a32. Storage and handling of meat, poultry and food products; rules and regulations. The secretary of agriculture may prescribe by rules and regulations the conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products of livestock and poultry and poultry products, which are capable of use as human food, shall be stored or […]
65-6a33. Slaughter and preparation of meat and products not for human food, not inspected; identification. Inspection shall not be provided under this act at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or poultry, or the preparation of any carcasses or parts or products of such animals, which are not intended for use as human food, […]
65-6a34. Engaging in business; registration required; annual fee; reinstatement fee. (a) No person shall: (1) Engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a broker or animal food manufacturer; (2) engage in business in such commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any livestock, domestic rabbits […]
65-6a34a. Denial or suspension of registration; hearing; appeal. (a) The secretary may deny, suspend, revoke or modify the provisions of any registration issued under the Kansas meat and poultry inspection act, if the secretary finds, after notice and opportunity for a hearing are given in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act, that the applicant […]
65-6a35. Cooperation with U.S. secretary of agriculture; appointment to advisory committees. (a) The Kansas department of agriculture is hereby designated as the state agency which shall be responsible for cooperating with the secretary of agriculture of the United States under the provisions of section 301 of the federal meat inspection act, and section 5 of […]
65-6a36. Refusal to provide or withdraw inspection services for applicant or recipient convicted of certain offenses; hearing. (a) The secretary may, for such period, or indefinitely, as the secretary deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act, refuse to provide, or withdraw, inspection service under this act with respect to any establishment if the […]
