Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products
Section 265.300 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories
265.300. Definitions. — The following terms as used in sections 265.300 to 265.470, unless the context otherwise indicates, mean:
(1) "Adulterated", any meat or meat product under one or more of the circumstances listed in Title XXI, Chapter 12, Section 601 of the United States Code as now constituted or hereafter amended;
(2) "Capable of use as human food", any carcass, or part or product of a carcass, of any animal unless it is denatured or otherwise identified, as required by regulation prescribed by the director, to deter its use as human food, or is naturally inedible by humans;
(3) "Cold storage warehouse", any place for storing meat or meat products which contains at any one time over two thousand five hundred pounds of meat or meat products belonging to any one private owner other than the owner or operator of the warehouse;
(4) "Commercial plant", any establishment in which livestock, poultry, or captive cervids are slaughtered for transportation or sale as articles of commerce intended for or capable of use for human consumption, or in which meat or meat products are prepared for transportation or sale as articles of commerce, intended for or capable of use for human consumption;
(5) "Director", the director of the department of agriculture of this state, or his authorized representative;
(6) "Livestock", cattle, calves, sheep, swine, ratite birds including but not limited to ostrich and emu, aquatic products as defined in section 277.024, llamas, alpaca, buffalo, bison, elk documented as obtained from a legal source and not from the wild, goats, or horses, other equines, or rabbits raised in confinement for human consumption;
(7) "Meat", any edible portion of livestock, poultry, or captive cervid carcass or part thereof;
(8) "Meat product", anything containing meat intended for or capable of use for human consumption, which is derived, in whole or in part, from livestock, poultry, or captive cervids;
(9) "Misbranded", any meat or meat product under one or more of the circumstances listed in Title XXI, Chapter 12, Section 601 of the United States Code as now constituted or hereafter amended;
(10) "Official inspection mark", the symbol prescribed by the director stating that an article was inspected and passed or condemned;
(11) "Poultry", any domesticated bird intended for human consumption;
(12) "Prepared", slaughtered, canned, salted, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed;
(13) "Unwholesome":
(a) Processed, prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions;
(b) Produced in whole or in part from livestock, poultry, or captive cervids which have died other than by slaughter.
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(L. 1967 p. 371 § 1, A.L. 1971 S.B. 39, A.L. 1993 H.B. 566 merged with S.B. 84, A.L. 1995 S.B. 109, A.L. 2005 S.B. 355, A.L. 2018 S.B. 627 & 925)
(2019) Section allowing commercial sale of white-tailed deer meat and mule deer meat conflicts with constitutional authority of Conservation Commission whose regulations prohibit such sale. Missouri Conservation Commission v. Schmitt, Cause No. 18AC-CC00339 (Cole County Circuit Court, 1/24/19).

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals

Chapter 265 - Regulation and Marketing of Agricultural Products

Section 265.010 - Definitions.

Section 265.020 - Director to promulgate standards — rulemaking, procedure.

Section 265.030 - Director to specify dates when standards become effective.

Section 265.040 - Authorized to cooperate with United States or any department.

Section 265.050 - Appointment of agents — bond — action on bond.

Section 265.060 - Appointment of inspectors — fees — suspension or revocation of license.

Section 265.070 - Appeal of inspector's decision — reasonable fee.

Section 265.080 - Certificate to be prima facie evidence.

Section 265.110 - Misrepresentation of grade, classification, quality or condition — penalty.

Section 265.120 - Rules for grading apples.

Section 265.130 - Apples — how marked — exemptions — penalty for violation.

Section 265.140 - Director to enforce — powers.

Section 265.150 - Merchandising fee imposed — exemptions.

Section 265.160 - Fees, when due — installment payments — records and reports of growers — penalty.

Section 265.170 - Unpaid fees to bear interest — manner of collection.

Section 265.180 - Creation of apple merchandising fund, not transferable.

Section 265.190 - Expenditure of moneys.

Section 265.200 - Powers and duties of Missouri state horticultural society.

Section 265.210 - Duty of state and county officers.

Section 265.220 - Prosecutions, procedure.

Section 265.280 - Definitions.

Section 265.283 - Sale of fresh meat from a foreign nation, when.

Section 265.286 - Label to include country of origin.

Section 265.289 - Department to enforce provisions — violations, procedure, penalty.

Section 265.300 - Definitions.

Section 265.310 - All commercial slaughter plants and meat processors regulated.

Section 265.320 - Certain operations exempted.

Section 265.330 - Meats section created — head of section, appointment, qualifications, duties.

Section 265.340 - Inspection supervisors, appointment, number, qualifications, compensation.

Section 265.350 - Inspectors, how assigned, duties.

Section 265.360 - Inspections, when conducted.

Section 265.370 - Unwholesome meat or meat products condemned — appeal, written notice, reinspection — director's determination subject to administrative review.

Section 265.380 - Unwholesome or adulterated meat to be marked, how.

Section 265.390 - Containers to bear inspection mark and plant number — containers to state ingredients, net weight or measure.

Section 265.400 - Labels must be approved — appeal from director's determination.

Section 265.410 - License required, application, fee.

Section 265.420 - Records required, inspection permitted, records to be retained.

Section 265.430 - Federal or other approved inspection basis for exemption.

Section 265.440 - Inspector may serve two or more plants.

Section 265.442 - Transportation or sale of adulterated, misbranded or certain unmarked meats prohibited.

Section 265.444 - Stop-sale order, when — seizure of product when, appeal.

Section 265.450 - Violation basis for suspension or refusal to license.

Section 265.460 - Operation without license or selling adulterated or misbranded meat, penalty.

Section 265.470 - Director and applicant placed under state department of elementary and secondary education relative to licenses.

Section 265.471 - Rules, Federal Meat Inspection Act.

Section 265.490 - Definitions.

Section 265.492 - Meat advertising to be truthful, accurate.

Section 265.494 - Prohibited practices, required disclosures.

Section 265.496 - Penalty.

Section 265.497 - Inspections, department of agriculture.

Section 265.499 - Remedies not to be exclusive, certain grocery retailers to be exempt.

Section 265.500 - Grain samples — sample sealed, when — state inspection, when — federal inspection, when — cost, how paid.

Section 265.505 - Duties and powers of director of the department of agriculture.

Section 265.510 - Violation, penalty for.

Section 265.515 - Rules of director, ratification of.

Section 265.525 - Citation of law — definitions — council created, members, terms, meetings, powers and duties — department authority — fees, rulemaking authority — violations, penalty — fund created, use of moneys.