Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2517 – Ante mortem examination of animals to be slaughtered
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2517
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry or the commissioner's designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2511
- Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats or other designated animals, whether live or dead. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2511
- Meat: means muscle of livestock, an amenable species or an exotic animal as defined by the federal acts that is skeletal or that is found in the tongue, diaphragm, heart or esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels that normally accompany the muscle tissue but does not include the muscle found in the lips, snout or ears. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2511
- Official establishment: means an establishment as determined by the commissioner 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 Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2511
- Poultry: means a domesticated bird, whether live or dead. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2511
For the purpose of preventing the use in commerce of meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry products that are adulterated, the commissioner shall appoint inspectors to examine and inspect all livestock and poultry before they are allowed to enter into a slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, rendering or similar official establishment in which they are to be slaughtered and the meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry products of which are to be used in commerce. All livestock and poultry found on such inspection to show symptoms of disease must be set apart and slaughtered separately from all other livestock or poultry and when so slaughtered the carcasses of the livestock and poultry are subject to a careful examination and inspection, as provided by the rules established by the commissioner and adopted pursuant to this chapter. [PL 2021, c. 64, §20 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1999, c. 777, §1 (NEW). PL 2021, c. 64, §20 (AMD).