A. No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat food products thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the Board to show the kinds of animals from which they were derived.
B. No person shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any livestock products or poultry products that are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the Board or are naturally inedible by humans.
C. No 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, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry or the products of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation, is made in accordance with such regulations as the Board may prescribe to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
1970, c. 290, § 3.1-884.24; 2008, c. 860.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 3.2 - Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food
Chapter 54 - Slaughterhouses, Meat, and Dressed Poultry
§ 3.2-5401. Adulterated livestock product or poultry product
§ 3.2-5402. Misbranded livestock product or poultry product
§ 3.2-5403. Department to cooperate with U.S. Department of Agriculture
§ 3.2-5404. Duties of the Board
§ 3.2-5405. Powers of Commissioner
§ 3.2-5406. Meat inspection regulations
§ 3.2-5407. Prohibitions in general
§ 3.2-5408. Prohibitions against unauthorized use of any official marks
§ 3.2-5409. Prohibition against intrastate distribution of equine, livestock and poultry products
§ 3.2-5411. Limitation of inspection to plants preparing products for human food
§ 3.2-5412. Inspection of products placed in container; right of access to plants at any time
§ 3.2-5413. Administrative detention of violative animals and products
§ 3.2-5414. Seizure and condemnation provisions
§ 3.2-5415. General criminal penalties; warning letter
§ 3.2-5416. Authority of Commissioner
§ 3.2-5417. Power of injunction
§ 3.2-5418. Limitation on applicability of chapter to matters regulated under federal acts
§ 3.2-5419. Smithfield hams defined
§ 3.2-5420. Only genuine Smithfield hams to be labeled or advertised as such