Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 603 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Division 29 - STATE MEAT INSPECTION PROGRAM › Section 603-029-1475 - Transportation and Other Transactions Concerning Dead, Dying, Disabled, or Diseased Meat Animals, and Parts of Carcasses of Meat Animals that Died Otherwise than by Slaughter

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or
				transporting in commerce in Oregon any dead, dying, disabled or diseased
				animals or parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by
				slaughter shall:
(1) Buy, sell,
			 transport, or offer for sale or transportation, in commerce in Oregon any dead
			 meat animal if its hide or skin has been removed;
(2) Sell, transport, offer for sale or
			 transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce in Oregon, any dead,
			 dying, disabled, or diseased meat animal, or parts of the carcasses of any meat
			 animal that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such meat animal and parts
			 are consigned and delivered, without avoidable delay, to animal food processing
			 establishments, renderers, or collection stations that are registered as
			 required by OAR 603-029-1300 to 603-029-1330, or to state-inspected
			 establishments that operate under Federal inspection, or to establishments that
			 operate under a State or Territorial inspection system approved by the
			 Secretary as one that imposes requirements at least equal to the Federal
			 requirements for purposes of paragraph 301(c) of the Act;4
A list of such registrants, States, and amendments thereof,
				will be published in the Federal Register, and information concerning the
				registration status of particular animal food processing establishments,
				renderers, or collection stations, or the status of particular States or
				Territories may also be obtained from the Director, Administrative Management
				Staff, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
				Washington, DC 20250.
(3)
			 Buy any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased meat animal or parts of the
			 carcasses of any meat animal that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless the
			 person is an animal food processing establishment or renderer and is registered
			 as required by OAR 603-029-1300 to 603-029-1330, or is the operator of an
			 establishment inspected as required by section (2) of this rule and such meat
			 animal or parts of carcasses are to be delivered to establishments eligible to
			 receive them under section (2) of this rule;
(4) Unload en route to any establishment
			 eligible to receive them under section (2) of this rule, any dead, dying,
			 disabled, or diseased meat animal or parts of the carcasses of any meat animal
			 that died otherwise than by slaughter, which are transported in commerce in
			 Oregon by any such person: Provided, That any such dead, dying, disabled, or
			 diseased meat animal, or parts of carcasses may be unloaded from a means of
			 conveyance en route where necessary in case of a wreck or otherwise
			 extraordinary emergency, and may be reloaded into another means of conveyance;
			 but in all such cases, the carrier shall immediately report the facts by
			 telephone to the Department.
(5)
			 Load into any means of conveyance containing any dead, dying, disabled, or
			 diseased meat animal, or parts of the carcasses of any meat animal that died
			 otherwise than by slaughter, while in the course of transportation in commerce
			 in Oregon of any meat animal or parts of carcasses not within the foregoing
			 description or any other products or other commodities.
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