3-2121. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Horse" includes horse, ass, mule and burro. 2. " Horsemeat" means meat from a horse, ass, mule or burro, or any product derived wholly or partially from such animal. 3. " Slaughterhouse" or " establishment" means a house or place in which horses, […]
3-2122. License to slaughter horses for human consumption; application; records required; appointment of inspectors A. A license shall be obtained from the division before slaughtering a horse for human consumption. B. Application for a license to conduct a slaughterhouse for the slaughter of horses for human consumption shall be submitted to the division on a […]
3-2123. Slaughterhouses and processing houses; separation from other meat handling; inspection; hearing; revocation of license; exemption of retailers A. The slaughtering of horses and preparation, processing, packing and storing of horsemeat and horsemeat products shall be conducted in a house or establishment separate from a house or establishment in which cattle, sheep, swine or goats […]
3-2124. Inspection of horses before and after slaughter; condemnation of unfit products A. There shall be an antemortem and a postmortem inspection of each horse slaughtered. B. A horse found either upon antemortem or postmortem inspection or examination to be afflicted with strangles, purpura, hemorrhagica, azoturia, forage poison or cerebrospina meningitis, dourine, acute influenza, generalized […]
3-2125. Labeling of horsemeat; requirements A. Carcasses of horses slaughtered for human consumption shall be stamped on each standard cut, " horsemeat." All horsemeat food products shall be conspicuously branded, marked, tagged or labeled, " horsemeat" or " horsemeat product." B. The labels for horsemeat or horsemeat food products shall be printed on light green […]
3-2126. Signs required for sale of horsemeat A. It is unlawful to offer horsemeat for sale for human consumption unless there is prominently displayed in conjunction therewith a sign bearing the words, in letters not less than eight inches in height and three inches in width, " horsemeat for human consumption." A restaurant or other […]
3-2127. Segregation of horsemeat products sold at retail from other meat products All horsemeat or horsemeat products sold at retail shall be sold from a case separate from that which contains the flesh of cattle.
3-2128. Sale of horsemeat not for human consumption in hermetically sealed container or frozen package Horsemeat not offered for sale for human consumption which is cooked and packed in a hermetically sealed container or frozen in a properly labeled package and kept intact in the original container may be sold in retail establishments where other […]
3-2129. Sale of horsemeat to state institutions prohibited Horsemeat shall not be served in or sold to state institutions for human consumption.
3-2130. Unlawful use of horsemeat It is unlawful to slaughter a horse for human consumption, or to prepare, process, can, cure, smoke, salt, render or pack, or sell or offer for sale for human consumption horsemeat or any product derived in whole or in part therefrom except in accordance with the provisions of this article.
3-2131. Violation; classification A. A person who knowingly sells horsemeat as beef or who sells beef or beef products adulterated with horsemeat as beef or who violates section 3-2123, subsection A or section 3-2127 is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. B. Violation of any provision of this article other than that prescribed by subsection […]
3-2132. Labeling of equines other than horses No person, firm or corporation shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation any carcasses of mules, or equines other than horses, or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat food products thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled […]
