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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 prescribed by the commissioner to show the
kinds of animals from which they were derived. When required by the commissioner with respect
to establishments where inspection is done under sections 31A.01 to 31A.16, equines and their
carcasses, parts, meat, and meat food products must be prepared in establishments separate
from those in which cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts, meat,
or meat food products are prepared.
History: 1969 c 225 s 12; 1971 c 24 s 7; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1
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 prescribed by the commissioner to show the
kinds of animals from which they were derived. When required by the commissioner with respect
to establishments where inspection is done under sections 31A.01 to 31A.16, equines and their
carcasses, parts, meat, and meat food products must be prepared in establishments separate
from those in which cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts, meat,
or meat food products are prepared.
History: 1969 c 225 s 12; 1971 c 24 s 7; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1
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