31A.01 POLICY. Meat, poultry, poultry food products, and meat food products are an important source of the nation’s total supply of food. It is essential in the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected by assuring that meat, poultry, and meat food products distributed to them are wholesome, unadulterated, and properly […]
31A.02 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Scope. The definitions in this section apply to this chapter. Subd. 2. Commissioner. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner’s delegate. Subd. 3. [Repealed, 1996 c 310 s 1] Subd. 4. Animals. “Animals” means cattle, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, farmed Cervidae, as defined in section 35.153, subdivision 3, llamas, […]
31A.03 INSPECTION OF LIVE ANIMALS; DISPOSITION OF DEFECTIVE ANIMALS. To prevent the use in intrastate commerce of adulterated meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry food products, the commissioner shall appoint inspectors and have them examine and inspect all animals before the animals enter a slaughtering, packing, meat canning, rendering, or similar establishment in this […]
31A.04 INSPECTION OF CARCASSES AND PARTS; MARKING; DISPOSITION OF CONDEMNED CARCASSES. Inspectors appointed by the commissioner for that purpose shall make a postmortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts of all animals usable as human food prepared at a slaughtering, meat canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in this state in which […]
31A.05 APPLICATION OF INSPECTION PROVISIONS. Sections 31A.03 and 31A.04 apply to carcasses or parts of animals, poultry, or poultry food products, and meat or meat products derived from them that are usable as human food, when these items are brought into a slaughtering, meat canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, where inspection under sections […]
31A.06 INSPECTORS’ DUTIES. The commissioner shall appoint inspectors to examine and inspect poultry food products and meat food products prepared in a slaughtering, meat canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, where the articles are prepared solely for intrastate commerce. For examination and inspection purposes, the inspectors must be given access at all times, whether […]
31A.07 MARKING OR LABELING OF INSPECTED ARTICLES. Subdivision 1. Labeling; packing. When poultry, poultry food products, meat, or meat food products prepared for intrastate commerce which have been inspected and marked “Minnesota Inspected and Passed” is placed or packed in a can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in an establishment where inspection […]
31A.08 SANITATION. The commissioner shall have experts in sanitation or other competent inspectors inspect all slaughtering, meat canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishments in which animals are slaughtered and their poultry, poultry food products, meat, and meat food products are prepared solely for intrastate commerce. The inspections must be conducted as necessary for the […]
31A.09 NIGHTTIME INSPECTIONS. Inspections under section 31A.08 must be made at night as well as during the daytime if slaughtering of animals or preparation of food products is conducted at night. History: 1969 c 225 s 9; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1
31A.10 PROHIBITIONS. No person may, with respect to an animal, carcass, part of a carcass, poultry, poultry food product, meat, or meat food product: (1) slaughter an animal or prepare an article that is usable as human food, at any establishment preparing articles solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with this chapter; (2) sell, […]
31A.11 FORGING OF OFFICIAL MARKS OR CERTIFICATES. Subdivision 1. Unauthorized marks or certificates. No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person may cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make a device containing an official mark, simulation of an official mark, label bearing a mark or simulation, or form of official certificate or simulation, except as authorized by […]
31A.12 HORSE MEAT. No person may sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in intrastate commerce, whole or parts of carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or meat or meat food products derived from them, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked, labeled, or otherwise identified as required by rules […]
31A.13 INSPECTORS. The commissioner shall appoint inspectors to inspect animals, whole or parts of carcasses, poultry, poultry food products, meat, and meat food products the inspection of which is provided for by law, and the sanitary conditions of all establishments in which the poultry, poultry food products, meat, and meat food products are prepared. Inspectors […]
31A.14 BRIBERY. A person who gives or receives anything of value in order to influence the performance of sections 31A.01 to 31A.31 violates section 609.42 or 609.43. History: 1969 c 225 s 14; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1
31A.15 EXEMPTIONS. Subdivision 1. Inspection. The provisions of sections 31A.01 to 31A.16 requiring inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, poultry, poultry food products, and meat food products at establishments conducting slaughter and preparation do not apply: (1) to the processing by a person of the […]
31A.16 STORING AND HANDLING CONDITIONS. The commissioner may adopt rules prescribing conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, poultry, poultry food products, meat, and meat food products of animals usable as human food must be stored or otherwise handled by a person in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting them, in or […]
31A.17 ARTICLES NOT INTENDED AS HUMAN FOOD. Inspection must not be provided under sections 31A.01 to 31A.16 at an establishment for the slaughter of animals or the preparation of carcasses or parts or products of animals which are not intended for use as human food. Before they are offered for sale or transportation in intrastate […]
31A.18 RECORDS. Subdivision 1. Who must keep. The following classes of persons shall keep records that fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses: (1) persons in the business, for intrastate commerce, of slaughtering animals or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling animal carcasses, parts, or products of carcasses for use as human or […]
31A.19 REGISTRATION OF BUSINESSES. No person may engage in intrastate business as: (1) a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer; (2) a wholesaler of animal carcasses, carcass parts, or products of carcasses, intended for human food or other purposes; (3) a public warehouse operator storing carcasses or parts of carcasses of animals in or […]
31A.20 DEAD, DYING, DISABLED, OR DISEASED ANIMALS; RULES. This section covers dead, dying, or disabled animals and the whole or partial carcasses of animals that died other than by slaughter. The commissioner may adopt rules to assure that items covered by this section are not used as human food. A person in the intrastate business […]
