Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-6a22

  • Capable of use as human food: means any carcass, or part or product of a carcass, of any animal unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as required by regulations adopted by the secretary to deter its use as human food or it is naturally inedible by humans. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
  • Livestock: means cattle, buffaloes, sheep, swine, goats, domesticated deer, all creatures of the ratite family that are not indigenous to this state, including but not limited to ostriches, emus and rheas or horses, mules or other equines. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
  • meat: means the dressed flesh of cattle, swine, horses, sheep, rabbits or goats but shall not include fish or products of fish. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a47
  • Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
  • Prepared: means slaughtered or processed. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
  • Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18

The provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 65-6a21 and amendments thereto shall apply to all carcasses or parts of carcasses of livestock, domestic rabbits and poultry, or the meat or meat products or poultry or poultry products thereof, which are capable of use as human food and which may be brought into any slaughtering, canning, salting, packing or similar establishment where inspection under this act is maintained. The examination and inspection shall be conducted before such carcasses or parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any department wherein the same are to be treated and prepared for meat food products or poultry food products. The provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 65-6a21 and amendments thereto shall also apply to all such products which, after having been issued from any such slaughtering, canning, salting, packing or similar establishment, are returned to the same or to any similar establishment where such inspection is maintained. The secretary may limit the entry of carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat products, poultry and poultry products and other materials into any establishment at which inspection under this act is maintained under such conditions as the secretary may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such inspected establishments will be consistent with the purposes of this act.