1. All livestock, poultry, meat or meat products intended for human consumption found by an inspector to be unwholesome or adulterated shall be condemned and destroyed, unless the article can be rendered wholesome and unadulterated by reprocessing under the supervision of the inspector; except that any order for destruction shall be stayed by timely appeal.

2. At any time within twenty-four hours after the order of the inspector, any person aggrieved by the order may object to the inspector’s determination by filing a written notice with the director, stating the specific grounds for the objection.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 265.370

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Director: means the director of the department of agriculture of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 265.010
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

3. The director may cause an inspection of the condemned article to be made by two additional inspectors, and shall rule on the objection seventy-two hours after receiving notice.

4. The determination of the director shall be subject to review as provided by chapter 536.