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examine and inspect the animals and the food products of animals at
night as well as during the day.

 
The commissioner is authorized to designate days of slaughter
or operation for approved establishments.

 
§2516.__Compliance

 
With respect to animals or carcasses or parts of carcasses,
meat or meat food products that are fit for human food, a person
may not:

 
1.__Establishment.__Slaughter animals or prepare articles at
an establishment preparing the articles solely for intrastate
commerce except in compliance with the requirements of this
chapter;

 
2.__Articles.__Sell, transport, offer for sale or
transportation or receive for transportation in intrastate
commerce:

 
A.__Articles that are adulterated or misbranded at the time
of sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation or
receipt for transportation; or

 
B.__Articles required to be inspected under this subchapter
unless they have been inspected and passed; or

 
3.__Act in transportation.__Commit an act while those articles
are being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale
after transportation that is intended to cause or causes them to
be adulterated or misbranded.

 
§2516-A.__False labels, devices and statements

 
1.__Labels.__A brand manufacturer, printer or other person may
not cast, print, lithograph or otherwise make a device that
contains an official mark or simulation of an official mark, a
label that bears such a mark or simulation or a form of official
certificate or simulation of an official certificate except as
authorized by the commissioner.

 
2.__Devices and statements.__A person may not:

 
A.__Forge an official device, mark or certificate;

 
B.__Without authorization from the commissioner, use an
official device, mark or certificate or a simulation of a
device, mark or certificate or alter, detach, deface or
destroy an official device, mark or certificate;


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