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2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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 18752.

18752. A livestock or poultry product is adulterated in each of the following cases:
(a) It bears or contains, by reason of administration of any substance to the livestock or poultry or otherwise any added poisonous or added deleterious substance, other than one which is: (1) a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity; (2) a food additive; or (3) a color additive; which may, in the judgment of the director, make such livestock or poultry product unfit for human food.
(b) It is, in whole or in part, a raw agricultural commodity and such commodity bears or contains any pesticide chemical which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C., Sec. 346a).
(c) It bears or contains any food additive which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C., Sec. 348).
(d) It bears or contains any color additive which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 706 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C., Sec. 376).
A livestock or poultry product which is not otherwise deemed adulterated pursuant to subdivision (b), (c), or (d) shall nevertheless be deemed adulterated if use of the pesticide chemical, food additive, or color additive in, or on, such livestock or poultry product is prohibited by the director in official establishments.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 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 18753.

18753. A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it consists, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or is for any other reason unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 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 18754.

18754. A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it has been prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions by which it may have become contaminated with filth, or been rendered injurious to health.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 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 18755.

18755. A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it is, in whole or in part, the product of an animal, including any poultry, which has died otherwise than by slaughter.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 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 18756.

18756. A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents of the livestock or poultry product injurious to health.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 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 18757.

18757. A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it has been intentionally subjected to radiation, unless the use of the radiation was in conformity with a regulation or exemption in effect pursuant to Section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C., Sec. 348).
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 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 18758.

18758. A livestock or poultry product is adulterated in each of the following cases:
(a) Any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted from the livestock or poultry product.
(b) Any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for any valuable constituent.
(c) Damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner.
(d) Any substance has been added to the livestock or poultry product, or mixed or packed with it, so as to increase its bulk or weight, or reduce its quality or strength, or make it appear of a better value than it is.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 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 18759.

18759. A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it is margarine containing animal fat and any of the raw material used in it consisted, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18781.

18781. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded in each of the following cases:
(a) Its labeling is false or misleading in any particular.
(b) It is offered for sale under the name of another food.
(c) It is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word “imitation” and immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated.
(d) Its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18782.

18782. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded unless it bears a label showing all of the following:
(a) The name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor.
(b) An accurate statement of the quantity of the product in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count.
The director may permit reasonable variations, exemptions as to small packages and exemptions as to any livestock product not in a container, that conforms to the purposes of this chapter.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18783.

18783. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if any word, statement, or other information required by, or under authority of, this chapter to appear on the label or other labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness, as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling, and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18784.

18784. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it purports to be, or is represented, as a food for which a definition and standard of identity or composition has been prescribed by the regulations of the director under Section 18731 unless it conforms to such definition and standard, and its label bears the name of the food specified in the definition and standard and, insofar as may be required by such regulations, the common names of optional ingredients, other than spices, flavoring, and coloring, present in such food.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18785.

18785. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it purports to be, or is represented as, a food for which a standard or standards of fill of container have been prescribed by regulations of the director under this chapter, and it falls below the standard of fill of container applicable thereto, unless its label bears, in such manner and form as such regulations specify, a statement that it falls below such standard.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18786.

18786. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it is not subject to the provisions of Section 18784, unless its label bears the common or usual name of the food, if any, and in case it consists of two or more ingredients, the common or usual name of each such ingredient. The director may, however, permit spices, flavorings, and colorings to be designated as spices, flavorings, and colorings without naming each, and to the extent that compliance with the requirements of Section 18784 are impracticable, or results in deception or unfair competition, by granting exemptions that conform to the purposes of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18787.

18787. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it purports to be, or is represented to be, for special dietary uses, unless its label bears such information concerning its vitamin, mineral, and other dietary properties as the director, after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, determines is necessary to fully inform purchasers as to its value for such uses.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18788.

18788. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it bears or contains any artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, or chemical preservative, unless it is so indicated on the label. To the extent that compliance with the requirements of this section is impracticable, the director may establish exemptions that conform to the purposes of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 5 - Misbranding › Section 18789.

18789. A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it fails to bear, directly upon the livestock or poultry product and on its container, as the director may prescribe, the official inspection legend and establishment number of the establishment where the product was prepared. The director may require such other information as he deems necessary to assure that the product will not have false or misleading labeling and that the public will be informed of the manner of handling required to maintain the livestock or poultry product in a wholesome condition.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 6 - Exemptions › Section 18811.

18811. For the purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 18691) of this chapter, the director may exempt the operations of any person from inspection or other requirements of this chapter to the extent such operations would be exempt from the corresponding requirements under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act if they were conducted in interstate commerce or if the state were designated as one in which the federal requirements apply to intrastate commerce by the federal acts.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 6 - Exemptions › Section 18812.

18812. The director shall exempt from inspection the slaughtering and preparation by any person of any livestock or poultry of his own raising, exclusively for use by him, members of his household, his nonpaying guests, or employees, and may exempt any other operation which the director determines would best be exempted to further the purposes of this chapter, to the extent such exemption conforms to the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act and the regulations thereunder.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 6 - Exemptions › Section 18813.

18813. The director shall not provide inspection under this chapter at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or poultry or the preparation of any livestock product or poultry product that is not intended for use as human food. The product, unless naturally inedible by humans, shall be denatured or otherwise identified as prescribed by the director, prior to being offered for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce, to prevent its use as human food, and shall be in compliance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 19200) of this part 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. 57. Effective September 29, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 6 - Exemptions › Section 18814.

18814. (a) This chapter shall apply to a retail store only to the same extent as the federal acts and regulations issued thereunder are applicable to retail stores, except as provided in subdivision (b).
(b) No livestock product or poultry product shall be prepared at any such retail store by curing, drying, smoking, or rendering, nor any livestock product of swine by cooking.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18841.

18841. It is unlawful for any person to slaughter any livestock or poultry, or prepare any livestock or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, at any establishment preparing such article solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18842.

18842. It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any article required to be inspected under this chapter, unless such article has been inspected and passed, or any livestock, poultry, livestock product, or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, which is adulterated or misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or receipt for transportation.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18843.

18843. It is unlawful for any person to do, with respect to any livestock, poultry, livestock product, or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, any act while it is being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transportation, which is intended to cause, or has the effect of causing, it to be adulterated or misbranded.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18844.

18844. It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, or from an official establishment, any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in accordance with this chapter and regulations promulgated under this chapter.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18845.

18845. It is unlawful for any person to violate any provision of the regulations promulgated by the director under this chapter.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18846.

18846. It is unlawful for any brand manufacturer, printer, or other person to cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the director under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure the accomplishments of the purposes of this chapter.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18847.

18847. It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following:
(a) Forge any official device, mark, or certificate.
(b) Without authorization from the director to use any official device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate.
(c) Contrary to the regulations of the director, fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate.
(d) Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the director or his representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate, or any device or label, or any carcass of any animal, including any poultry, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark.
(e) Knowingly make any false statement in any shipper’s certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the regulations of the director.
(f) Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has, respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18848.

18848. It is unlawful for any person to sell any dressed carcass of any livestock or poultry which is intended for food purposes, or any prepared meat or meat food product or poultry product within the state unless it bears the “inspected and passed” stamp of federal inspection or state inspection applied at the establishment where the animal was slaughtered and at the establishment where the meat or meat food product, or poultry or poultry product was prepared or manufactured.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18849.

18849. It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcass of any horse, mule, or other equine, or any part of the carcass, or any meat or meat food product thereof, unless it is plainly and conspicuously marked, labeled, or otherwise identified as required by regulations of the director to indicate the animal from which it was derived, and is in compliance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 19200) of this part 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. 58. Effective September 29, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18850.

18850. It is unlawful for any person to buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any livestock product or poultry product that is not intended for use as human food, unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the director or is naturally inedible by humans, and is in compliance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 19200) of this part 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. 59. Effective September 29, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18851.

18851. It is unlawful for any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter to buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry, or any products of the animal that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless the transaction or transportation, is made in accordance with any regulations the director may prescribe to assure that the animal, or the part or product thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes, and is in compliance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 19200) of this part 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. 60. Effective September 29, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18852.

18852. It is unlawful for any person to give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any officer or employee of this state authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter or by the regulations of the director, any money or other thing of value, with intent to influence such officer or employee in the discharge of any such duty.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18853.

18853. It is unlawful for any officer or employee of this state authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter to accept any money, gift, or other thing of value from any person, given with intent to influence his official action, or to receive or accept from any person engaged in intrastate commerce in meat food products or poultry products any gift, money, or other thing of value given with any purpose or intent whatsoever.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18854.

18854. It is unlawful for any person to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18855.

18855. It is unlawful for any person to neglect or refuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if such evidence is available to him, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the director.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18856.

18856. It is unlawful for any person to willfully make, or cause to be made, any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be made under this chapter or to willfully make, or cause to be made, any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by any person subject to this chapter or to willfully neglect or fail to make, or to cause to be made, full, true, and correct entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda, of all facts and transactions appertaining to the business of such person. It is unlawful to willfully remove from the jurisdiction of this state, or willfully mutilate, alter, or by any other means falsify any documentary evidence of any person subject to this chapter or to willfully refuse to submit to the director or to any of his authorized agents, for the purpose of inspection and taking copies, any documentary evidence of any person subject to this chapter, which is in his possession or within his control.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 7 - Violations › Section 18857.

18857. It is unlawful for any person required by this chapter to file any annual or special report to fail so to do within the time fixed by the director for filing the report.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY › PART 3 - SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS › CHAPTER 4 - Meat and Poultry Inspection › ARTICLE 8 - Products in Violation › Section 18871.

18871. Since it cannot be determined with certainty, by any present known method of inspection, whether meat, including any poultry meat, is unwholesome unless the organs and other tissues of an animal are inspected when slaughtered, and as meat and meat food products, and poultry products which are derived from uninspected livestock or poultry may be unfit for human food, the director, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall seize and destroy for human food purposes any meat, meat food product, or poultry product that does not bear the “inspected and passed” stamp, brand, mark, or label which is required by this chapter.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)