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21 U.S.C. § 644 — Regulation of transactions, transportation, or importation of 4–D animals to prevent use as human food
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No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in commerce, or importing, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce, or import, 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, unless such transaction, transportation or importation is made in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
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No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in commerce, or importing, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce, or import, 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, unless such transaction, transportation or importation is made in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
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As used in this chapter, except as otherwise specified, the following terms shall have the meanings stated below:
**(a)** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or his delegate.
**(b)** The term “firm” means any partnership, association, or other unincorporated business organization.
**(c)** The term “meat broker” means any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, or meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or as an employee of another person, firm, or corporation.
**(d)** The term “renderer” means any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of rendering carcasses or parts or products of the carcasses, of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, except rendering conducted under inspection or exemption under this subchapter.
**(e)** The term “animal food manufacturer” means any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines.
**(f)** The term “State” means any State of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
**(g)** The term “Territory” means Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, American Samoa, and any other territory or possession of the United States, excluding the Canal Zone.
**(h)** The term “commerce” means commerce between any State, any Territory, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or within any Territory not organized with a legisl
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TITLE 21—FOOD AND DRUGS
§ 643
firms, and corporations subject to such require-
ments shall, at all reasonable times upon notice
by a duly authorized representative of the Sec-
retary, afford such representative access to
their places of business and opportunity to ex-
amine the facilities, inventory, and records
thereof, to copy all such records, and to take
reasonable samples of their inventory upon pay-
ment 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 ani-
mals;
(3) Any persons, firms, or corporations that
engage in business, in or for commerce, as ren-
derers, or engage in the business of buying,
selling, or transporting, in commerce, or im-
porting, 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 pre-
scribe.
(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, § 202, as added Pub.
L. 90–201, § 14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 593.)
§ 643. Registration of business, name of person,
and tr
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