2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 52 - Poultry Products (§§ 741 — 758) › § 749 - Processing of poultry products and related industries

(a) Inspection shall not be provided under this chapter to any establishment engaged in the slaughtering of poultry or the processing of any carcasses or parts or products of poultry which are not intended for use as human food; but such articles shall, prior to their offer for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce, unless naturally inedible, be denatured or otherwise identified as prescribed by regulations of the Secretary, to deter their use for human food. No person shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or for transportation or receive for transportation, or have in any other form in intrastate commerce, poultry and poultry products which are not intended for use as human food, unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations or are naturally inedible by humans.
(b) The following persons shall keep such records as will fully and correctly reveal all the transactions involved in their business and all persons subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a representative of the Secretary, afford such representative access to the places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventories and records thereof and to copy all such records and to take reasonable samples of their inventories.
(1) Any person who engages in intrastate commerce in the business of slaughtering any poultry or processing, freezing, packaging or labeling poultry products or parts or products of carcasses of any poultry, for intrastate commerce and for use as human or animal food.
(2) Any person who engages in intrastate commerce in the business of buying or selling as dealer in poultry products, wholesaler or otherwise, or transporting or storing said products.
(3) Any person who engages in business, in intrastate commerce, as a renderer or in the business of buying, selling, transporting, in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry or parts of any poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter in an official establishment.
(4) Every record to be kept in accordance with this subsection shall be preserved for such reasonable period of time as the Secretary may prescribe by regulation to that effect.
(c) No person shall engage in business, in intrastate commerce, as a poultry products dealer, renderer, whether intended for human consumption or for other purposes, or animal food manufacturer or engage in intrastate commerce, in the business of public warehousing said products, or in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry, or parts of any poultry, that died otherwise than by slaughter in an official establishment, unless, when required by regulations of the Secretary, the person has registered with the Secretary his name, the address of each place of business and all the trade names under which he conducts his businesses.
(d) No person engaged in the business of buying, selling or transporting in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry, or any parts of any poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter in an official establishment, shall carry out said transactions unless such transactions are made in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary to assure that such poultry or the unwholesome parts thereof will not be used as human food.
History —July 7, 1971, No. 10, p. 601, § 9.