(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. (b) Any poultry product is “adulterated” if: (1) It bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health. However, if the substance is not an added substance, the article shall not be considered adulterated if the quantity of the substance in […]
Poultry and poultry products are an important source of the nation’s total food supply. It is in the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected by assuring that slaughtered poultry and poultry products distributed to them are wholesome, not adulterated, and properly marked, labeled, and packaged. Unwholesome, adulterated, or misbranded poultry […]
This subtitle applies to any person, establishment, poultry, poultry product, and any other article regulated under the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act only to the extent that it is consistent with the federal act. This subtitle does not apply to any act or transaction subject to exclusive regulation under the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. […]
(a) The Secretary shall cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in developing and administering the State poultry products inspection program to assure that the State requirements at least are equal to those imposed by the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act and to develop and administer the State inspection program in a manner […]
(a) At any official establishment, the Secretary may perform the following acts: (1) Antemortem inspection; (2) Postmortem inspection; and (3) Quarantine, segregation, and reinspection. (b) Every poultry carcass, part of it, or other poultry product found to be adulterated in any official establishment shall be condemned. If no appeal is taken from the determination of condemnation, every adulterated article shall […]
(a) The Secretary may not inspect any establishment that slaughters poultry or processes any poultry carcass, part or product of it, that is not intended for use as human food. However, the article shall be denatured or otherwise identified to deter its use as human food, pursuant to departmental rule or regulation, prior to its offer […]
The State shall bear the cost of inspection rendered under this subtitle, except as provided in § 4–204 of this subtitle. However, each establishment shall pay the cost of overtime and holiday work, except during the 14–day period immediately prior to both Thanksgiving and Christmas, at rates the Secretary determines. Sums received by the Secretary, […]
(a) Each official establishment shall have its premises, facilities, equipment, and operation in accordance with sanitary practices required by departmental rules and regulations. (b) The Secretary shall refuse to inspect any establishment whose premises, facilities, equipment, or operation fails to meet the requirements of this section.
(a) Every poultry product, inspected at an official establishment and found not to be adulterated, shall bear the information required by § 4–201(o) of this subtitle and departmental rules and regulations in distinctly legible form on the shipping container or other container, as the Secretary requires, when it leaves the establishment. (b) When it is feasible and […]
The Secretary may prescribe conditions limiting the entry of poultry products and other materials into any official establishment to assure that entry is consistent with the purposes of this subtitle.
(a) No person may sell, offer for sale, or donate any article subject to this subtitle under any false or misleading name, marking, or labeling or in any container of a misleading form or size. In addition to any other provision of this subsection, established trade names, other marking, labeling, and containers approved by the Secretary […]
(a) For the purpose of this section, a person is responsibly connected if he is an officer, director, holder, or an owner of at least 10 percent of the voting stock, or an employee in a managerial or executive capacity in the business. (b) After the applicant or recipient is accorded an opportunity for a hearing, the […]
A person shall register his name, the address of each place of business, and every trade name under which he conducts business, when required by the Secretary, if he engages in any of the following businesses in or for intrastate commerce: (1) Poultry products broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer; (2) Wholesaler of any poultry carcass or […]
No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry, or any part of the carcass of any poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter, may buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in intrastate commerce the poultry or […]
(a) Each person shall maintain records necessary to insure that adulterated or misbranded products are not distributed to consumers, for a period the Secretary prescribes which may not exceed two years unless the Secretary shows good cause, if the person engages in any of the following businesses in or for intrastate commerce: (1) Slaughter of poultry or […]
The Secretary, by rule or regulation, may prescribe conditions under which poultry products capable of use as human food shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting in or for intrastate commerce.
(a) The Secretary shall adopt rules and regulations exempting the following from the provisions of this subtitle pursuant to conditions he prescribes for sanitary standards, practices, and procedures: (1) Any poultry products sold directly to consumers by any retail dealer in any retail store if the store does not perform processing operations other than cutting up poultry […]
No person may: (1) Slaughter any poultry or process any poultry products capable of use as human food at any establishment processing any articles solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this subtitle; (2) Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, (i) any poultry product capable […]
(a) The Secretary may detain, for no more than 20 days, any poultry product, any product exempted from the definition of poultry product, or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry he finds on any premises where it is held for distribution, or during or after distribution, if the article is capable for use as human […]
(a) Any poultry product, or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry, that is transported in intrastate commerce or is held for sale, or donation in the State after transportation, and that (1) is or has been processed, sold, transported, or otherwise distributed or offered or received for distribution in violation of this subtitle; (2) is […]
