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§ 6-184. Postmortem inspection--Marking or stamping--Destruction

Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 2. Agriculture

Oklahoma Statutes Annotated
Title 2. Agriculture
Chapter 1. Agricultural Code (Refs & Annos)
Article 6. Livestock Diseases (Refs & Annos)
H. Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act (Refs & Annos)
2 Okl.St.Ann. § 6-184
§ 6-184. Postmortem inspection--Marking or stamping--Destruction
For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Board shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose, as hereinafter provided, a postmortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines, capable of use as human food, to be prepared at any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in this state in which such articles are prepared for intrastate commerce; and the carcasses and parts thereof of all such animals found to be not adulterated shall be marked, stamped, tagged, or labeled, as “Inspected and Passed”; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag, as “Inspected and Condemned”, all carcasses and parts thereof of animals found to be adulterated; and all carcasses and parts thereof thus inspected and condemned shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Board may remove inspectors from any such establishment which fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof, and said inspectors, after said first inspection, shall, when they deem it necessary, reinspect said carcasses or parts thereof to determine whether, since the first inspection, the same have become adulterated and if any carcass or any part thereof shall, upon examination and inspection subsequent to the first examination and inspection, be found to be adulterated, it shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Board may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof.

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Laws 1968, c. 63, § 4, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968; Laws 1985, c. 38, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 Okl. St. Ann. § 6-184, OK ST T. 2 § 6-184
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 277 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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