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CA Food & Agri Code § 18670 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and Short Title|Section 18670.

18670.  “Official inspection legend” means any symbol which is prescribed by the director that shows that an article was inspected and passed in accordance with this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18671 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and Short Title|Section 18671.

18671.  “Offical mark” means the official inspection legend or any other symbol which is prescribed by the director to identify the status of any article or livestock or poultry under this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18672 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and Short Title|Section 18672.

18672.  “Person” includes any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other business unit, and any officer, agent, or employee thereof.(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1010, Sec. 128. Effective January 1, 1995.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18673 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and Short Title|Section 18673.

18673.  “Pesticide chemical,” “food additive,” “color additive,” and “raw agricultural commodity” shall have the same meanings as under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18674 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and Short Title|Section 18674.

18674.  “Prepared” means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18675 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and Short Title|Section 18675.

18675.  “Poultry” means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18676 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and Short Title|Section 18676.

18676.  “Poultry product” means any poultry carcass, any part of a poultry carcass, or any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass or any part of a poultry carcass. The director may exempt from this definition any product which contains any poultry ingredient only in a relatively small proportion which is found by him not to be a product of the poultry food industry for the purposes of this chapter, under such condition as he may prescribe to assure that the poultry ingredient in such product is not adulterated and that such product is not represented as a poultry product.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18677 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and Short Title|Section 18677.

18677.  “Renderer” means any person that is engaged in the business of rendering any livestock or poultry carcass, or any part or product of such a carcass, except rendering conducted under inspection or exemption under this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18691 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 18691.

18691.  Meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products are an important source of the nation’s total supply of food. It is essential in the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected by assuring that meat, meat food products, slaughtered poultry, and poultry products, distributed to them are wholesome, not adulterated, and properly marked, labeled, and packaged. Unwholesome, adulterated, or misbranded meat, meat food products, poultry, or poultry products, are injurious to the public welfare, destroy markets for wholesome, not adulterated and properly labeled and packaged meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products, and result in sundry losses to livestock and poultry producers and processors of meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products, as well as injury to consumers. Unwholesome, adulterated, mislabeled, or deceptive packaged articles can be sold at lower prices and compete unfairly with wholesome, not adulterated, and properly labeled and packaged articles, to the detriment of consumers and the public generally. It is hereby found that regulation by the director and cooperation by this state and the United States as contemplated by this chapter are appropriate to protect the health and welfare of consumers and otherwise effectuate the purposes of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18692 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 18692.

18692.  It is the objective of this chapter to provide for meat and poultry products inspection programs that will impose and enforce requirements with respect to intrastate operations and commerce that are at least equal to those imposed and enforced under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act with respect to operations and transactions in interstate commerce. The director shall administer this chapter so as to accomplish this purpose. The Department of Agriculture is designated as the appropriate state agency to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in administration this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18693 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 18693.

18693.  The regulations which are adopted pursuant to this chapter shall conform, so far as possible, to the rules, regulations, and standards of the United States Department of Agriculture which govern the inspection, preparation, and processing of livestock and livestock products and poultry and poultry products.Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the director may adopt, by regulation, standards and requirements equal to those of the federal acts, including, but not limited to, standards and requirements of inspection, sanitation, reinspection, preparation, processing, buying, selling, transporting, storing, identification, recordkeeping, registration, and labeling. The regulations shall not be less restrictive than state statutory requirements. The director may enter into cooperative agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States to enforce such standards and requirements in this state.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18694 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 18694.

18694.  This chapter applies to any person, establishment, animal, or article regulated under the federal acts only to the extent provided for in the federal acts. The exemptions provided in the federal acts are, however, applicable to this chapter insofar as they are not contrary to this division and Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 113025) of Part 6 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code.(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023, Sec. 56. Effective September 29, 1996.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18695 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 18695.

18695.  If slaughtering or carcass preparation or processing of any meat, meat products, poultry, or poultry product is conducted in an establishment where state inspection is maintained, at hours considered overtime for state employees, or on legal holidays, the owner or operator of the establishment shall, by contract or agreement with the department, make arrangement to defray the additional cost for salaries and expenses for persons employed by the department to conduct the necessary inspection work during the overtime periods.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18696 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 18696.

18696.  The director may cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in administration of this chapter to effectuate the purposes stated in Sections 18691 and 18692, accept federal assistance for that purpose and spend public funds of this state appropriated for administration of this chapter to pay the state’s proportionate share of the estimated total cost of the cooperative program.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18697 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 18697.

18697.  The director may do all of the following:(a) Recommend to the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States for appointment to the advisory committees provided for in the federal acts, such officials or employees of the department as the director shall designate.(b) Serve as the representative of the Governor for consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18721 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18721.

18721.  To accomplish the purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 18691) of this chapter, the director shall require ante mortem and post mortem inspections, quarantine, segregation, and reinspections with respect to the slaughter of any livestock or poultry, or the preparation of any livestock product or poultry product at every establishment in this state, except an establishment which is exempted by him under Section 18811, at which livestock or poultry are slaughtered, or any livestock product or poultry product, is prepared for human food solely for distribution in intrastate commerce.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18722 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18722.

18722.  The director shall require the identification of livestock and poultry for inspection purposes, and the marking and labeling of any livestock product or poultry product or its containers, or both, as either:(a) “California Inspected and Passed,” if the product is found upon inspection to be not adulterated.(b) “California Inspected and Condemned,” if the product is found upon inspection to be adulterated. The destruction for food purposes of any product condemned under this subdivision shall be under the supervision of an inspector.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18723 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18723.

18723.  The director shall prohibit the entry into official establishments of any livestock product or poultry product which was not prepared under federal inspection or inspection pursuant to this chapter and further limit the entry of any such product or other materials into such establishments under such conditions as he deems neccessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18724 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18724.

18724.  The director shall require that when any livestock product or poultry product leaves official establishments it shall bear directly thereon or on its containers, or both, as he may require, all information required under Article 5 (commencing with Section 18781) and require approval of all labeling and containers to be used for such product when it is sold or transported in intrastate commerce to assure that the product and the labeling and containers comply with the requirements of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18725 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18725.

18725.  The director shall investigate the sanitary conditions of each establishment required to have inspection under Section 18721 and shall withdraw or otherwise refuse to provide inspection service at any establishment where the sanitary conditions are such as to render adulterated any livestock product or poultry product which is prepared or handled at the establishment. No such establishment shall be operated without inspection.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18726 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18726.

18726.  The director shall prescribe sanitation requirements for all establishments required to have inspection under Section 18721.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18727 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18727.

18727.  The director shall require the following classes of persons to keep such records and for such periods as he may specify, to fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their business, and afford to the director and his representatives, access to such places of business, and opportunity, at all reasonable times, to examine the facilities, inventory and such records, to copy the records, and to take reasonable samples of the inventory:(a) Any person that engages in intrastate commerce in the business of slaughtering any livestock or poultry, or preparing, freezing, packaging or labeling, buying or selling (as brokers, wholesalers or otherwise), transporting, or storing any livestock product or poultry product which is intended for human or animal food.(b) Any person that engages in intrastate commerce in the business of rendering or in the buying, selling, or transporting of any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry, or any part of the carcass of any such animal (including poultry) that died otherwise than by slaughter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18728 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18728.

18728.  The director may refuse to provide inspection service to any establishment that fails to destroy any condemned product as required pursuant to Section 18722 and any regulation promulgated thereunder.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18729 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18729.

18729.  The director may refuse to provide inspection service under this chapter with respect to any establishment for any cause specified in Section 401 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C., Sec. 671) or Section 18 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C., Sec. 467).(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18730 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18730.

18730.  The director may order any labeling or container to be withheld from use if he determines that the labeling is false or misleading or the container is of a misleading size or form.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18731 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18731.

18731.  The director may prescribe the size and style of any type which is to be used for labeling information required pursuant to this chapter, and definitions and standards of identity or composition or standards of fill of container, consistent with federal standards, when he deems such action appropriate for the protection of the public and after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18732 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18732.

18732.  The director may prescribe conditions of storage and handling of any livestock product or poultry product by any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting such livestock or poultry product in intrastate commerce to assure that it will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer, including requirements that any vehicle used by any establishment which operates under state inspection for transporting any dressed carcass of any animal, including any poultry, intended for human consumption, any part of any such carcass, meat, meat food product, or poultry product inspected and marked pursuant to this chapter shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition and shall be regularly inspected by an inspector stationed at the establishment.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18733 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18733.

18733.  Equines shall be slaughtered and prepared in establishments separate from any establishment where any other livestock is slaughtered or any product of any other livestock is prepared.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18734 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18734.

18734.  Every person that is engaged in business in intrastate commerce as a broker, renderer, animal food manufacturer, or wholesaler or public warehouseman of any livestock product or poultry product, or engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry or any part of the carcass of any such animal, including any poultry, that died otherwise than by slaughter shall register with the director his name, the address of each place of business, and all trade names under which he conducts such business.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18735 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18735.

18735.  The director may adopt, by reference or otherwise, such provisions of the rules and regulations under the federal acts, with such changes therein as he deems appropriate to make them applicable to operations and transactions subject to this chapter, which shall have the same force and effect as if promulgated under this chapter, and promulgate such other regulations as he deems necessary for the efficient execution of the provisions of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18736 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18736.

18736.  The director may appoint and prescribe the duties of such inspectors and other personnel as he deems necessary for the efficient execution of the provisions of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18737 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18737.

18737.  No inspection of any product placed in any container at any official establishment shall be deemed to be complete until the product is sealed or enclosed in the container under the supervision of an inspector.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18738 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 3 - Inspections and Regulations|Section 18738.

18738.  For purposes of any inspection of any product required by this chapter, any inspector authorized by the director shall have access at all times, by day or night, to every part of every establishment required to have inspection under this chapter, whether the establishment is operating or not.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 18751 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY|PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS|CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection|ARTICLE 4 - Adulteration|Section 18751.

18751.  A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health, but in case the substance is not an added substance, such livestock or poultry product shall not be considered adulterated if the quantity of such substance in or on such article does not ordinarily render it injurious to health.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)