1. A person commits a fraudulent practice as defined in section 714.8 if the person does any of the following:

 a. Slaughters livestock or poultry or prepares an article produced from livestock or poultry which is capable of use as human food, at any establishment preparing the article solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
 b. Sells, transports, offers for sale or transportation, or receives for transportation in intrastate commerce, any article produced from livestock or poultry which is both of the following:

 (1) Capable of use as human food.
 (2) Adulterated or misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or receipt for transportation; or required to be inspected under this chapter unless the article has passed inspection.
 c. Commits any act which is intended to cause or has the effect of causing an article produced from livestock or poultry to be adulterated or misbranded, if the article is capable of use as human food and is being transported or held for sale after being transported in intrastate commerce.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 189A.10

  • Establishment: means all premises where animals or poultry are slaughtered or otherwise prepared, either for custom, resale, or retail, for food purposes, meat or poultry canneries, sausage factories, smoking or curing operations, restaurants, grocery stores, brokerages, cold storage plants, and similar places. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Intrastate commerce: means commerce within this state. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Livestock: means a live or dead animal which is limited to cattle, sheep, swine, goats, farm deer, or which is classified as an equine including a horse or mule. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Official establishment: means any establishment as determined by the secretary at which inspection of the slaughter of livestock or poultry or the preparation of livestock products or poultry products is maintained under the authority of this chapter. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Person: includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit, and any officer, agent, or employee thereof. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead. See Iowa Code 189A.2
 2. A person commits a fraudulent practice as defined in section 714.8, if the person sells, transports, offers for sale or transportation, or receives for transportation in intrastate commerce, or receives from an official establishment, any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the secretary.
 3. No person shall violate any provision of the regulations or orders of the secretary under section 189A.5, subsection 2, paragraph “g”, or section 189A.7.
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