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21 U.S.C. § 645 — Federal provisions applicable to State or Territorial business transactions of a local nature and not subject to local authority
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The authority conferred on the Secretary by section 642, 643, or 644 of this title with respect to persons, firms, and corporations engaged in the specified kinds of business in or for commerce may be exercised with respect to persons, firms, or corporations engaged, in any State or organized Territory, in such kinds of business but not in or for commerce, whenever the Secretary determines, after consultation with an appropriate advisory committee provided for in [section 661 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section661&num=0&edition=prelim), that the State or territory does not have at least equal authority under its laws or such authority is not exercised in a manner to effectuate the purposes of this chapter including the State providing for the Secretary or his representative being afforded access to such places of business and the facilities, inventories, and records thereof, and the taking of reasonable samples, where he determines necessary in carrying out his responsibilities under this chapter; and in such case the provisions of section 642, 643, or 644 of this title, respectively, shall apply to such persons, firms, and corporations to the same extent and in the same manner as if they were engaged in such business in or for commerce and the transactions involved were in commerce.
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The authority conferred on the Secretary by section 642, 643, or 644 of this title with respect to persons, firms, and corporations engaged in the specified kinds of business in or for commerce may be exercised with respect to persons, firms, or corporations engaged, in any State or organized Territory, in such kinds of business but not in or for commerce, whenever the Secretary determines, after consultation with an appropriate advisory committee provided for in [section 661 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section661&num=0&edition=prelim), that the State or territory does not have at least equal authority under its laws or such authority is not exercised in a manner to effectuate the purposes of this chapter including the State providing for the Secretary or his representative being afforded access to such places of business and the facilities, inventories, and records thereof, and the taking of reasonable samples, where he determines necessary in carrying out his responsibilities under this chapter; and in such case the provisions of section 642, 643, or 644 of this title, respectively, shall apply to such persons, firms, and corporations to the same extent and in the same manner as if they were engaged in such business in or for commerce and the transactions involved were in commerce.
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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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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,
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