Kansas Statutes 65-6a57. Actions arising out of consumption of a meat product; liability of producer where livestock inspected under Kansas law
(a) As used in this section, for livestock prepared in Kansas in accordance with Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6a18 et seq., and amendments thereto: (1) “Producer” means any person engaged in the business of breeding, grazing, maintenance or feeding of livestock.
(2) “Livestock,” “meat food product,” “person” and “prepared” shall have the meanings ascribed thereto by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6a18, and amendments thereto.
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-6a57
- 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
- Meat food product: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portions of the carcasses of any livestock or domestic rabbits, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the secretary under such conditions as the secretary may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other business unit or governmental entity. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Prepared: means slaughtered or processed. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
(b) In an action arising as a result of consumption of a meat food product against a producer of livestock, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the producer of livestock met the standard of ordinary care in the production of the livestock in question, if the livestock in question was inspected and passed in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6a18 et seq., and amendments thereto.
(c) In no event shall a producer of livestock in an action arising as a result of consumption of a meat food product be held to a standard higher than that of ordinary care if the livestock in question had been inspected and passed in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6a18 et seq., and amendments thereto.