LD 2687
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LR 4026
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(2)__Have not been inspected and passed, unless the
products are exempt from inspection pursuant to rules
adopted by the commissioner; or

 
C.__With respect to those products that are useable as human
food, perform any act, while the products are being
transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after
transportation, that is intended to cause or has the effect
of causing the products to be adulterated or misbranded.

 
2.__Slaughtered poultry.__In intrastate commerce, a person may
not sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive
for transportation__or from an official establishment any
slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head or
viscera have not been removed in accordance with rules adopted by
the commissioner except as authorized by those rules.

 
3.__Plainly identified.__In intrastate commerce, a person may
not sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive
for transportation any carcass of horses, mules or other equines
or parts of these carcasses, or the meat or meat food products of
these carcasses, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked
or labeled or otherwise identified as required by rules
established by the commissioner to show the kinds of animals from
which they were derived.

 
4.__Denatured.__In intrastate commerce, a person may not buy,
sell, transport or offer for sale or transportation or receive
for transportation livestock products or poultry products that
are not intended for use as human food, unless they are denatured
or otherwise identified as required by the rules of the
commissioner or are naturally inedible by humans.

 
5.__Animals not slaughtered.__A person engaged in the business
of buying, selling or transporting in intrastate commerce dead,
dying, disabled or diseased animals or parts of the carcasses of
any animals that died other than by slaughter may not buy, sell,
transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for
transportation in intrastate commerce dead, dying, disabled or
diseased livestock or poultry or the products of these animals
that died other than by slaughter, unless the transaction or
transportation is made in accordance with rules that the
commissioner may prescribe to ensure that the animals or the
unwholesome parts or products are prevented from being used for
human food purposes.

 
6.__False information or failure to cooperate.__A person
commits a Class D crime if the person intentionally or knowingly:


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