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21 U.S.C. § 642 — Recordkeeping requirements
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**(a) Classes of persons bound; scope of disclosure; access to places of business; examination of records, facilities, and inventories; copies; samples** The following classes of persons, firms, and corporations shall keep such records as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses; and all persons, firms, and corporations subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the Secretary, afford such representative access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor—
(1) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage, for commerce, in the business of slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human food or animal food;
(2) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in the business of buying or selling (as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise), or transporting in commerce, or storing in or for commerce, or importing, any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals;
(3) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in business, in or for commerce, as renderers, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in commerce, or importing, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter.
**(b) Period of maintenance** Any record required to be maintained by th
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**(a) Classes of persons bound; scope of disclosure; access to places of business; examination of records, facilities, and inventories; copies; samples** The following classes of persons, firms, and corporations shall keep such records as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses; and all persons, firms, and corporations subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the Secretary, afford such representative access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor—
(1) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage, for commerce, in the business of slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human food or animal food;
(2) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in the business of buying or selling (as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise), or transporting in commerce, or storing in or for commerce, or importing, any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals;
(3) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in business, in or for commerce, as renderers, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in commerce, or importing, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter.
**(b) Period of maintenance** Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for such period of time as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe.
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**(a) Congressional statement of policy** It is the policy of the Congress to protect the consuming public from meat and meat food products that are adulterated or misbranded and to assist in efforts by State and other Government agencies to accomplish this objective. In furtherance of this policy—
(1) **Development and administration of State meat inspection program equal to subchapter I ante and post mortem inspection, reinspection, and sanitation requirements** — The Secretary is authorized, whenever he determines that it would effectuate the purposes of this chapter, to cooperate with the appropriate State agency in developing and administering a State meat inspection program in any State which has enacted a State meat inspection law that imposes mandatory ante mortem and post mortem inspection, reinspection and sanitation requirements that are at least equal to those under subchapter I of this chapter, with respect to all or certain classes of persons engaged in the State in slaughtering cattle, sheep, swine, goats, or equines, or preparing the carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products, of any such animals for use as human food solely for distribution within such State.
(2) **Development and administration of State program with authorities equal to subchapter II authorities; cooperation with Federal agencies** — The Secretary is further authorized, whenever he determines that it would effectuate the purposes of this chapter, to cooperate with appropriate State agencies in developing and administering State programs under State laws containing authorities at least equal to those provided in subchapter II of this chapter; and to cooperate with other agencies of the United States in carrying out any provisions of this chapter.
(3) **Scope of cooperation:
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Requirements within the scope of this chapter with respect to premises, facilities and operations of any establishment at which inspection is provided under subchapter I of this chapter, which are in addition to, or different than those made under this chapter may not be imposed by any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, except that any such jurisdiction may impose recordkeeping and other requirements within the scope of [section 642 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section642&num=0&edition=prelim), if consistent therewith, with respect to any such establishment. Marking, labeling, packaging, or ingredient requirements in addition to, or different than, those made under this chapter may not be imposed by any State or Territory or the District of Columbia with respect to articles prepared at any establishment under inspection in accordance with the requirements under subchapter I of this chapter, but any State or Territory or the District of Columbia may, consistent with the requirements under this chapter, exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the Secretary over articles required to be inspected under said subchapter I, for the purpose of preventing the distribution for human food purposes of any such articles which are adulterated or misbranded and are outside of such an establishment, or, in the case of imported articles which are not at such an establishment, after their entry into the United States. This chapter shall not preclude any State or Territory or the District of Columbia from making requirement 11 So in original. Probably should be “requirements”. or taking other action, consistent with this chapter, with respect to any other matters regulated under this chapter.
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TITLE 21—FOOD AND DRUGS
§ 642
sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other
equines, capable of use as human food, shall be
stored or otherwise handled by any person, firm,
or corporation engaged in the business of buy-
ing, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in
or for commerce, or importing, such articles,
whenever the Secretary deems such action nec-
essary to assure that such articles will not be
adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the
consumer. Violation of any such regulation is
prohibited. However, such regulations shall not
apply to the storage or handling of such articles
at any retail store or other establishment in any
State or organized Territory that would be sub-
ject to this section only because of purchases in
commerce, if the storage and handling of such
articles at such establishment is regulated
under the laws of the State or Territory in
which such establishment is located, in a man-
ner which the Secretary, after consultation with
the appropriate advisory committee provided for
in section 661 of this title, determines is ade-
quate to effectuate the purposes of this section.
(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 24, as added Pub.
L. 90–201, § 13, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 593.)
§ 625. Inapplicability of certain requirements to
catfish
Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, the requirements of sections 603, 604,
605, 610(b), and 623 of this title shall not apply to
any fish described in section 601(w)(2) of this
title.
(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 25, as added Pub.
L. 110–234, title XI, § 11016(b)(1)(C), May 22, 2008,
122 Stat. 1369, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XI,
§ 11016(b)(1)(C), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2131;
amended Pub. L. 113–79, title XII, § 12106(a)(3),
Fe
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