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7 U.S.C. § 4803 — Pork and pork product orders
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**(a)** To carry out this chapter, the Secretary shall, in accordance with this chapter, issue and, from time to time, amend orders applicable to persons engaged in—
(1) the production and sale of porcine animals, pork, and pork products in the United States; and
(2) the importation of porcine animals, pork, or pork products into the United States.
**(b)** The Secretary may issue such regulations as are necessary to carry out this chapter.
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**(a)** To carry out this chapter, the Secretary shall, in accordance with this chapter, issue and, from time to time, amend orders applicable to persons engaged in—
(1) the production and sale of porcine animals, pork, and pork products in the United States; and
(2) the importation of porcine animals, pork, or pork products into the United States.
**(b)** The Secretary may issue such regulations as are necessary to carry out this chapter.
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**(a)** Congress finds that—
(1) pork and pork products are basic foods that are a valuable and healthy part of the human diet;
(2) the production of pork and pork products plays a significant role in the economy of the United States because pork and pork products are—
(A) produced by thousands of producers, including many small- and medium-sized producers; and
(B) consumed by millions of people throughout the United States on a daily basis;
(3) pork and pork products must be available readily and marketed efficiently to ensure that the people of the United States receive adequate nourishment;
(4) the maintenance and expansion of existing markets, and development of new markets, for pork and pork products are vital to—
(A) the welfare of pork producers and persons concerned with producing and marketing pork and pork products; and
(B) the general economy of the United States;
(5) pork and pork products move in interstate and foreign commerce;
(6) pork and pork products that do not move in such channels of commerce directly burden or affect interstate commerce in pork and pork products; and
(7) in recent years, increasing quantities of low-cost, imported pork and pork products have been brought into the United States and replaced domestic pork and pork products in normal channels of trade.
**(b)**
(1) It is the purpose of this chapter to authorize the establishment of an orderly procedure for financing, through adequate assessments, and carrying out an effective and coordinated program of promotion, research, and consumer information designed to—
(A) strengthen the position of the pork industry in the marketplace; and
(B) maintain, develop, and expand markets for pork and pork products.
(2) Such procedure shall be implemented, and such program
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For purposes of this chapter:
(1) The term “Board” means the National Pork Board established under [section 4808 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section4808&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The term “consumer information” means an activity intended to broaden the understanding of sound nutritional attributes of pork or pork products, including the role of pork or pork products in a balanced, healthy diet.
(3) The term “Delegate Body” means the National Pork Producers Delegate Body established under [section 4806 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section4806&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) The term “imported” means entered, or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory of the United States.
(5) The term “importer” means a person who imports porcine animals, pork, or pork products into the United States.
(6) The term “order” means a pork and pork products promotion, research, and consumer information order issued under [section 4803 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section4803&num=0&edition=prelim).
(7) The term “person” means an individual, group of individuals, partnership, corporation, association, organization, cooperative, or other entity.
(8) The term “porcine animal” means a swine raised for—
(A) feeder pigs;
(B) seedstock; or
(C) slaughter.
(9) The term “pork” means the flesh of a porcine animal.
(10) The term “pork product” means a product produced or processed in whole or in part from pork.
(11) The term “producer” means a person who produces porcine animals in the United States for sale in commerce.
(12) The term “promotion” means an action, including paid advertising, taken to
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 4806
(14) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Sec-
retary of Agriculture.
(15) The term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50
States.
(16) The term ‘‘State association’’ means—
(A) the single organization of pork pro-
ducers in a State that is—
(i) organized under the laws of the State
in which such association operates; and
(ii) recognized by the chief executive of-
ficer of such State as representing the
pork producers of such State; or
(B) if such organization does not exist on
January 1, 1986, an organization that rep-
resents not fewer than 50 pork producers
who market annually, in the aggregate, not
less than 10 percent of the volume (measured
in pounds) of porcine animals marketed in
such State.
(17) The term ‘‘to market’’ means to sell or
to otherwise dispose of a porcine animal, pork,
or pork product in commerce.
(Pub. L. 99–198, title XVI, § 1613, Dec. 23, 1985, 99
Stat. 1607.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective Jan. 1, 1986, see section 1631 of Pub.
L. 99–198, set out as a note under section 4801 of this
title.
§ 4803. Pork and pork product orders
(a) To carry out this chapter, the Secretary
shall, in accordance with this chapter, issue and,
from time to time, amend orders applicable to
persons engaged in—
(1) the production and sale of porcine ani-
mals, pork, and pork products in the United
States; and
(2) the importation of porcine animals, pork,
or pork products into the United States.
(b) The Secretary may issue such regulations
as are necessary to carry out this chapter.
(Pub. L. 99–198, title XVI, § 1614, Dec. 23, 1985, 99
Stat. 1609.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective Jan. 1, 1986, see section 1631 of Pub.
L. 99–198, se
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