(a) For purposes of section 25993.1 of the Health and Safety Code, any written certification from a supplier to a buyer engaged in commercial sales of whole pork meat that was not derived from a breeding pig, or offspring of a breeding pig, confined in a cruel manner shall be based upon an audit trail as defined in section 1322(b), of this Article, and shall be traceable to pork producers compliant with all requirements of section 1322.1 of this Article.

(b) A retailer or food processing facility that is an end-user and takes physical possession, whether by use of a common carrier, private carrier or other means of conveyance, of whole pork meat at, or directly from, an establishment at which mandatory inspection is provided under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.), that holds an establishment number (prefix “M”) granted by the Food Safety Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture with a prefix of “M”, and that does not hold a valid pork distributor registration, shall:

(c) Subsection (b) of this section shall not apply to a whole pork meat end-user that is an establishment under mandatory inspection under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.) and that holds an establishment number (prefix “M”) granted by the Food Safety Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.