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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 75', '§ 75', '§ 75', '§ 75', '§ 2', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1']

MS - Horses - Slaughter (Chapter 33. Meat, Meat-Food and Poultry Regulation and Inspection) | Animal Legal & Historical Center
Full Statute Name: West's Annotated Mississippi Code. Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments. Chapter 33. Meat, Meat-Food and Poultry Regulation and Inspection. Article 1. Meat, Meat-Food and Poultry Regulation and Inspection Law of 1960. § 75-33-3. Definitions; exemptions
Popular Title: Meat Inspection Act of 1960 Primary Citation: Miss. Code Ann. § 75-33-3 Country of Origin: United States Last Checked: November, 2019 Alternate Citation: MS ST § 75-33-3 Date Adopted: 1960 Historical:
Summary: Construes the phrase "unfit for human consumption" in the very broad Mississippi Meat Inspection Act of 1960 to apply to horse meat and meat-food products.
§ 75-33-3 Definitions [emphasis added]
1) For the purpose of this article, the words and terms used herein shall have ascribed to them the following meanings:
(a) The word “person” shall include individuals, partnerships, corporations, associations, and any other legal entity recognized by law.
(b) The terms “meat” and “meat-food products,” whenever used in this article, shall include the carcasses or parts thereof, of cattle, sheep, goats, other ruminants, including exotic animals, swine, horses, mules, rabbits, poultry and ratites and the meat and meat-food products of such animals.
(c) The term “food unfit for human consumption” shall be construed to include the meat and meat-food products of horses and mules and all meats or meat-food products which are so affected with disease that it would be dangerous to use the meat or other parts for human food; also all meats or meat-food products which are contaminated, putrid, unsound, unhealthful, or otherwise unfit for food, or which have been derived from any animal which has died as a result of disease or accident, or which was in a dying condition at the time of slaughter.
(d) The word “establishment” as used in this article, shall include: (i) any building or structure in which slaughtering, butchering, meat processing, meat canning, meat packing, meat manufacturing or rendering is carried on; and (ii) the ground upon which such building or structure is erected, and so much ground adjacent thereto as is used in carrying on the business of such establishment, including drains, gutters, waste disposal and cesspools used in connection with the establishment.
(e) The word “equipment,” as used in this article, shall include all machinery, fixtures, containers, vessels, tools, implements and apparatus used in and about an establishment.
(f) The word “commissioner,” as used in this article, shall mean the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, or his duly authorized deputies.
(g) The word “ratite,” means a member of a group of large flightless birds including the ostrich, rhea and emu.
(h) The words “exotic animal,” mean a member of a species of game not indigenous to this state, including axis deer, fallow deer, red deer or other cloven-hooved ruminant animals and ratites.
Laws 1960, Ch. 141, § 2; Laws 1972, Ch. 477, § 1; Laws 1974, Ch. 490, § 1; Laws 1996, Ch. 543, § 1, eff. July 1, 1996.