Mississippi Code
Article 1 - Inspection Requirements; Adulteration and Misbranding
§ 75-35-33. Regulations prescribing conditions for storage and handling

The commissioner may by regulations prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, capable of use as human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for intrastate commerce, such articles, whenever the commissioner deems such action necessary to assure that such items or products will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer. Violation of any such regulation is prohibited.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments

Chapter 35 - Meat Inspection

Article 1 - Inspection Requirements; Adulteration and Misbranding

§ 75-35-1. Short title

§ 75-35-3. Definitions

§ 75-35-5. Legislative finding

§ 75-35-7. Inspection of cattle and other equine prior to entry into slaughtering establishments; separation and slaughtering of diseased animals; commissioner authorized to examine and inspect for methods of slaughtering and to provide for suspensio...

§ 75-35-9. Post-mortem examination and labeling of carcasses; destruction of condemned carcasses; reinspection

§ 75-35-11. Examination of carcasses brought into slaughtering or similar establishments, and of products issued therefrom or returned thereto; limitation on entry of carcasses or products into inspected establishments

§ 75-35-13. Inspection of products in slaughtering or similar establishments; access; inspection marks or labels; destruction of condemned products

§ 75-35-17. Sanitary inspection and regulation of slaughtering or similar establishments; duty of commissioner with respect to adulterated meat or meat food products

§ 75-35-19. Examination of animals and meat products thereof slaughtered or prepared during nighttime

§ 75-35-21. Prohibitions with respect to slaughtering, preparation, sale, transportation, adulteration or misbranding of carcasses or meat food products

§ 75-35-25. Labeling and preparation of carcasses of horses and mules

§ 75-35-27. Appointment and duties of inspectors

§ 75-35-29. Bribery of inspectors or other officers; acceptance of gifts

§ 75-35-33. Regulations prescribing conditions for storage and handling