Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 603 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Division 29 - STATE MEAT INSPECTION PROGRAM › Section 603-029-1400 - Transactions in Commerce Prohibited Without Official Inspection Legend or Certificate When Required; Exceptions; and Vehicle Sanitation Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) No person shall
			 sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for
			 transportation, in commerce, any meat or meat product which is capable of use
			 as human food unless the product and its container, if any, bear an official
			 inspection legend as required under OAR 603-029-0900 to 603-029-1060 or such
			 product is exempted from the requirement of inspection under OAR
			 603-029-0020.
(2) No carrier shall
			 transport or receive for transportation in commerce (including transportation
			 in the course of importation) and no person shall offer for transportation any
			 carcass, or part thereof, meat or meat product until a certificate, if required
			 for such transportation by this rule, is made and furnished to the carrier in
			 one of the forms prescribed in this rule.
(3) No person, engaged in the business of
			 buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for commerce, meat
			 or meat products capable of use as human food shall transport, offer for
			 transportation, or receive for transportation in commerce any such meat or meat
			 product which is capable of use as human food and is not wrapped, packaged, or
			 otherwise enclosed to prevent adulteration by airborne contaminants, unless the
			 railroad car, truck, or other means of conveyance in which the product is
			 contained or transported is completely enclosed with tight fitting doors or
			 other covers for all openings. In all cases, the means of conveyance shall be
			 reasonably free of foreign matter (such as dust, dirt, rust, or other articles
			 or residues), and free of chemical residues, so that product placed therein
			 will not become adulterated. Any cleaning compound, lye, soda solution, or
			 other chemical used in cleaning the means of conveyance must be thoroughly
			 removed from the means of conveyance prior to its use. Such means of conveyance
			 onto which product is loaded, being loaded, or intended to be loaded, shall be
			 subject to inspection by an inspector at any state-inspected establishment. The
			 decision whether or not to inspect a means of conveyance in a specific case,
			 and the type and extent of such inspection shall be at the Department's
			 discretion and shall be adequate to determine if product in such conveyance is,
			 or when moved could become, adulterated. Circumstances of transport that can be
			 reasonably anticipated shall be considered in making said determination. These
			 include, but are not limited to, weather conditions, duration and distance of
			 trip, nature of product covering, and effect of restowage at stops en-route.
			 Any means of conveyance found upon such inspection to be in such condition that
			 product placed therein could become adulterated shall not be used until such
			 condition which could cause adulteration is corrected. Product placed in any
			 means of conveyance that is found by the inspector to be in such condition that
			 the product may have become adulterated shall be removed from the means of
			 conveyance and handled in accordance with OAR 603-029-1105(4).
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  603.085, ORS
				  619.042 & ORS
				  619.046
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  619.042, ORS
				  619.046, ORS
				  619.026 & ORS
				  619.036