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21 U.S.C. § 624 — Storage and handling regulations; violations; exemption of establishments subject to non-Federal jurisdiction

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21 U.S.C. § 624 — Storage and handling regulations; violations; exemption of establishments subject to non-Federal jurisdiction

The Secretary may by regulations prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products of cattle, 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 buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for commerce, or importing, such articles, whenever the Secretary deems such action necessary 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 subject 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 manner which the Secretary, after consultation with the 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), determines is adequate to effectuate the purposes of this section.

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21 U.S.C. § 661 — Federal and State cooperation

**(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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21 U.S.C. § 623 — Exemptions from inspection requirements

**(a) Personal slaughtering and custom slaughtering for personal, household, guest, and employee uses** The provisions of this subchapter requiring inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products at establishments conducting such operations for commerce shall not apply to the slaughtering by any person of animals of his own raising, and the preparation by him and transportation in commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products of such animals exclusively for use by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees; nor to the custom slaughter by any person, firm, or corporation of cattle, sheep, swine or goats delivered by the owner thereof for such slaughter, and the preparation by such slaughterer and transportation in commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products of such animals, exclusively for use, in the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees; nor to the custom preparation by any person, firm, or corporation of carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products, derived from the slaughter by any person of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats of his own raising, or from game animals, delivered by the owner thereof for such custom preparation, and transportation in commerce of such custom prepared articles, exclusively for use in the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees: Provided, That in cases where such person, firm, or corporation engages in such custom operations at an establishment at which inspection under this subchapter is maintained, the Secretary may exempt from such inspection at such establishment

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21 U.S.C. § 624 — Storage and handling regulations; viola-

Page 758 TITLE 21—FOOD AND DRUGS § 624 for use, in the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees; nor to the custom prepa- ration by any person, firm, or corporation of carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products, derived from the slaughter by any per- son of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats of his own raising, or from game animals, delivered by the owner thereof for such custom preparation, and transportation in commerce of such custom pre- pared articles, exclusively for use in the house- hold of such owner, by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employ- ees: Provided, That in cases where such person, firm, or corporation engages in such custom op- erations at an establishment at which inspec- tion under this subchapter is maintained, the Secretary may exempt from such inspection at such establishment any animals slaughtered or any meat or meat food products otherwise pre- pared on such custom basis: Provided further, That custom operations at any establishment shall be exempt from inspection requirements as provided by this section only if the establish- ment complies with regulations which the Sec- retary is hereby authorized to promulgate to as- sure that any carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products wherever handled on a cus- tom basis, or any containers or packages con- taining such articles, are separated at all times from carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products prepared for sale, and that all such ar- ticles prepared on a custom basis, or any con- tainers or packages containing such articles, are plainly marked ‘‘Not for Sale’’ immediately after being prepared and kept so identified until delivered to the owner and that the est

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