The director shall cause to be made, by experts in sanitation or by other competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering or similar establishments in which cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines are slaughtered and the meat and meat food products thereof are prepared for sale as may be necessary to determine the sanitary conditions of the establishment, and to prescribe the rules of sanitation under which such establishments shall be maintained. If the sanitary conditions of any such establishment are such that the meat or meat food products are rendered adulterated, the director shall refuse to allow such meat or meat food products to be labeled, marked, stamped or tagged as "inspected and passed."

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 3-2058

  • Establishment: means a mobile or stationary building, plant, vehicle or structure where meat or meat food products are slaughtered or processed or offered for sale. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
  • Meat: means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, sheep, swine, goats or equines which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing. See Arizona Laws 3-2001