(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions
Sec. 3. Congressional intent and statement of findings.
Sec. 4. Transfer of jurisdiction over seafood inspection.
TITLE I—INSPECTION AND LABELING OF LIVESTOCK ,
POULTRY, SEAFOOD, AND THEIR PRODUCTS
Subtitle A—Inspection Requirements
Sec. 101. Ante-mortem examination.
Sec. 102. Post-mortem examination.
Sec. 103. Processing examination.
Sec. 104. Facility sanitation.
Sec. 105. Night examinations and verifications.
Sec. 106. Prohibited acts: adulteration.
Sec. 107. Exempt activities.
Sec. 108. Microbiological testing.
Subtitle B—Labeling Requirements
Sec. 121. Inspection labeling.
Sec. 122. Derivation labeling; separate preparation and slaughtering activities.
Sec. 123. Prohibited acts: misbranding.
Subtitle C—International Commerce
Sec. 131. Imported livestock and poultry carcasses, seafood, meat products,
poultry products, and seafood products.
Sec. 132. Exports and certificates of condition.
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous
Sec. 141. Transitional period.
Sec. 142. Rulemaking.
Sec. 143. Appeals.
Sec. 144. Safe Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Inspection Advisory Panel.
Sec. 145. Bribery of officers, employees, or officials.
Sec. 146. Conditions for entry.
Sec. 147. Pre-slaughter identification and control.
Sec. 148. Monitoring and closure of growing areas and fishing grounds.
Sec. 149. Trade secret protection.
TITLE II—RELATED INDUSTRIES
Sec. 201. Prohibition of title I inspection for articles not intended for use as
human food; Denaturation or other identification prior to dis-
tribution in commerce; Inedible articles.
Sec. 202. Record keeping requirements.
Sec. 203. Registration of person, place of business, and trade name.
Sec. 204. Regulation of certain transactions, transportation, or importation of
certain livestock, poultry, or seafood to prevent its use as
human food.
Sec. 205. Applicability to State and territorial businesses not engaged in inter-
state commerce.
TITLE III—FEDERAL AND STATE COOPERATION
Sec. 301. Federal and State cooperation.
TITLE IV—AUXILIARY PROVISIONS
Sec. 401. Inspection services.
Sec. 402. Administrative detention and release of carcasses, meat products,
poultry products, and seafood products.
Sec. 403. Seizure and condemnation.
Sec. 404. Federal jurisdiction.
Sec. 405. Criminal acts against inspection officials.
Sec. 406. Violations.
Sec. 407. Other Federal laws applicable to administration and enforcement of
Act.
Sec. 408. State jurisdiction over federally-regulated matters.
Sec. 409. Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act applications.
TITLE V—PUBLIC EDUCATION
Sec. 501. Education.
TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 601. Research.
Sec. 602. Cost of inspection; Overtime.
Sec. 603. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 604. Reports to Congress
TITLE VII—REPEAL OF SUPERSEDED LAWS
Sec. 701. Poultry Products Inspection Act.
Sec. 702. Federal Meat Inspection Act.
Sec. 703. Related laws.
Sec. 704. Conforming amendments.
TITLE VIII—EFFECTIVE DATE
Sec. 801. Effective date.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
The following definitions apply for purposes of this
Act:
(a) DEFINITIONS RELATED TO REGULATED ARTI-
CLES.—
(1) CARCASS.—The term ‘‘carcass’’ means the
body of any livestock or poultry following the re-
moval of the viscera, hide, head, tail, or extremities.
(2) LIVESTOCK.—The term ‘‘livestock’’ means
any wild, domesticated, or exotic animal or reptile
produced and intended for use, or used, as food.
(3) MEAT PRODUCT.—The term ‘‘meat prod-
uct’’ means any product capable of use as human
food that is made in whole or in part from any por-
tion of a livestock carcass.
(4) POULTRY.—The term ‘‘poultry’’ means any
wild, domesticated, or exotic bird produced and in-
tended for use, or used, as food.
(5) POULTRY
PRODUCT.—The term ‘‘poultry
product’’ means any product capable of use as
human food that is made in whole or in part from
any portion of a poultry carcass.
(6) RAW
AGRICULTURAL
COMMODITY.—The
term ‘‘raw agricultural commodity’’ has the same
meaning given the term in section 201(r) of the
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C.
321(r)).
(7) REGULATED
ARTICLE.—The term ‘‘regu-
lated article’’ means any livestock or poultry carcass,
seafood, meat product, poultry product, or seafood
product.
(8) SEAFOOD.—The term ‘‘seafood’’ means wild
or cultured aquatic life, except birds, animals, and
reptiles, produced and intended for use, or used, as
food.
(9) SEAFOOD
PRODUCT.—The term ‘‘seafood
product’’ means any product capable of use as
human food and derived in whole or in part from
seafood.
(b) DEFINITIONS RELATED TO REGULATED PER-
SONS.—
(1) ANIMAL FOOD MANUFACTURER.—The term
‘‘animal food manufacturer’’ means any person en-
gaged in the business of processing animal food de-
rived in whole or in part from any portion of a car-
cass or from seafood.
(2) BROKER.—The term ‘‘broker’’ means any
person engaged in negotiating the purchase or sale
of all or any portion of a carcass, seafood, meat
product, poultry product, seafood product, or sea-
food for other than the person’s own account or as
an employee of another person.
(3) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means any
individual, corporation, unincorporated business en-
tity (such as a partnership, association, cooperative,
or joint venture), the Federal Government, or a
local, State, or foreign government.
(4) 
PROCESSING.—The 
term 
‘‘processing’’
means heading and gutting, filleting, fermenting,
freezing, dehydrating, mincing, drying, canning, salt-
ing, curing, smoking, stuffing, rendering, boning,
cutting up, grinding, cooking, assembling, labeling or
otherwise manufacturing or preparing a carcass,
seafood, meat product, poultry product, or seafood
product for direct or indirect sale to a consumer.
(5) PROCESSING FACILITY.—The term ‘‘proc-
essing facility’’ means a building or other premises,
including a vessel, where the processing of carcasses,
seafood, meat products, poultry products, or seafood
products is conducted.
(6) RENDERER.—The term ‘‘renderer’’ means
any person engaged in the business of rendering any
portion of a carcass or seafood, except those persons
inspected or exempted under title I.
(7) SLAUGHTER.—The term ‘‘slaughter’’ means
the intentional cessation of the life of an animal cov-
ered by this Act for purposes of food production.
(8) 
SLAUGHTERING
FACILITY.—The 
term
‘‘slaughtering facility’’ means a building or other
cultural commodity, (ii) a food additive, or (iii)
a color additive) which, in the judgment of the
Secretary, makes the regulated article unfit for
human food.
(C) The regulated article is, in whole or in
part, a raw agricultural commodity and such
commodity bears or contains a pesticide chemi-
cal which is unsafe within the meaning of sec-
tion 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 346a).
(D) The regulated article bears or contains
any food additive that is unsafe within the
meaning of section 409 of the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 348).
(E) The regulated article bears or contains
any color additive that is unsafe within the
meaning of section 721 of the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 379e).
(F) The regulated article is not adulter-
ated under subparagraphs (C), (D), or (E), but
use of the pesticide chemical, food additive, or
color additive in or on the article is prohibited
by regulations of the Secretary in facilities at
which inspection is maintained under title I.
(G) The regulated article consists in whole
or in part of any decomposed substance or is
for any other reason unwholesome or otherwise
unfit for human food.
(H) The regulated article has been pre-
pared, packed, or held under unsanitary condi-
tions whereby it may have become contami-
nated, or whereby it may have been rendered
injurious to health.
(I) The regulated article is, in whole or in
part, the product of livestock or poultry that
has died otherwise than by slaughter.
(J) The container of the regulated article
is composed, in whole or in part, of any poison-
ous or deleterious substance that may render
the contents injurious to health.
(K) The regulated article has been ren-
dered radioactive.
(L) Any valuable constituent of the regu-
lated article has been, in whole or in part, omit-
ted or abstracted from the article, or any sub-
stance has been substituted, in whole or in part,
therefor, or damage or inferiority has been con-
cealed in any manner, or any substance has
been added thereto or mixed or packed there-
with so as to increase its bulk or weight, or re-
duce its quality or strength, or make it appear
better or of greater value than it is.
(M) The regulated article is margarine
containing livestock, poultry, or seafood fat and
any of the raw material used therein consisted
in whole or in part of any decomposed sub-
stance.
(N) The regulated article is a seafood
product derived in whole or in part from sea-
food harvested in—
(i) from a growing area or fishing
ground that, for the protection of the pub-
lic health, has been closed to such growing
or harvesting under Federal or State law;
or
(ii) a State or foreign nation that does
not have a program of inspection approved
or certified by the Secretary.
(O) A regulated article that is raw or is in
a not-ready-to-eat condition is not adulterated
simply because of the presence of micro-
biological organisms found in or on the regu-
lated article, except that the Secretary may,
through rulemaking under section 523 of title
5, United States Code, identify specific micro-
biological organisms that, when found in suffi-
cient quantities in or on a regulated article fol-
lowing normal handling and preparation, render
the regulated article injurious to the health of
an ordinary consumer.
(2) CAPABLE OF USE AS HUMAN FOOD.—The
term ‘‘capable of use as human food’’ means any
portion of a carcass or seafood, unless it is—
(A) denatured;
(B) identified in a manner prescribed by
the Secretary so as to deter its use as human
food; or
(C) naturally inedible by humans.
(3) COLOR ADDITIVE.—The term ‘‘color addi-
tive’’ has the same meaning given the term in sec-
tion 201(5) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 321(t)).
(4) FOOD ADDITIVE.—The term ‘‘food additive’’
has the same meaning given the term in section
201(s) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(21 U.S.C. 321(s)).
(5) GENERALLY RECOGNIZED CONTROL PROCE-
DURES AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS.—The term ‘‘gen-
erally recognized control procedures and corrective
actions’’ means those techniques which have been
shown to be effective through scientific method or
which are acknowledged as good and effective food
processing practices by the Panel established under
section 144.
(6) LABEL.—The term ‘‘label’’ means a display
of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the im-
mediate container (not including package liners) of
any regulated article.
(7) LABELING.—The term ‘‘labeling’’ means all
labels and other written, printed, or graphic mat-
ter—
(A) upon any regulated article or any of its
containers or wrappers; or
(B) accompanying such article.
(8) MISBRANDED.—The term ‘‘misbranded’’
means all or any portion of a carcass, seafood, meat
product, poultry product, or seafood product to
which one or more of the following circumstances
apply:
(A) The labeling of the regulated product
is false or misleading in any particular.
(B) The regulated article is offered for sale
under the name of another food.
(C) The regulated article is an imitation of
another food, unless its label bears, in type of
uniform size and prominence, the word ‘‘imita-
tion’’ and immediately thereafter the name of
the food imitated.
(D) The container of the regulated article
is so made, formed, or filled as to be mislead-
ing.
(E) The regulated article is in a package
or other container that does not bear a label
showing—
(i) the name and place of business of
the manufacturer, packer, or distributor;
and
(ii) an accurate statement of the
quantity of the contents in terms of
weight, measure, or numerical count, ex-
cept that, with respect to this clause rea-
sonable variations may be permitted, and
exemptions as to small packages may be
established, by regulations prescribed by
the Secretary.
(F) Any word, statement, or other infor-
mation required by or under authority of this
Act to appear on the label or other labeling of