Effective: June 20, 1994
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 134 - 120th General Assembly
The director of agriculture shall prescribe the wording of a sanitary or wholesomeness inspection stamp used on a horse carcass, horse meat, or horse meat food product or on the covering, wrapper, or container of such commodity when the commodity is intended for human food that is processed, sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail in the state. The wording of the stamp shall specify that a sanitary inspection or an inspection for wholesomeness has been made of the commodity on which the stamp is used, and that the commodity has met the standards for sanitation or wholesomeness established in this chapter or rules adopted pursuant thereto.
The director may authorize the use of such an inspection stamp on horse carcasses, horse meat, or horse meat food products, or on the coverings, wrappers, or containers thereof, by qualified officials of the state, by any municipal inspection service, or by any district health inspection service approved by the director.
The use of such an inspection stamp by any unauthorized person, or the misuse thereof by any person so authorized, constitutes a violation of this section.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences
Section 919.01 | Horse Meat Definitions.
Section 919.02 | License - Registration - Fee.
Section 919.03 | Horse Meat to Be Labeled by Processor.
Section 919.04 | Inspection Stamp.
Section 919.05 | Alteration of Labels or Stamps.
Section 919.06 | Detention Tag - Order for Condemnation - Supervision.
Section 919.07 | Sign to Be Displayed by Establishment.
Section 919.08 | Suspension or Revocation of License Because of Unsanitary Conditions.
Section 919.09 | Investigations - Examination of Samples.
Section 919.10 | Adulteration - Definition.
Section 919.11 | Prohibitions - Labeling of Horse Meat Fed to Animals.
Section 919.12 | Records of Sales.
Section 919.13 | Exemption of Persons Subject to Other Inspection Service.
Section 919.14 | Application for Exempted Inspection Service Status.
Section 919.15 | Administrative Rules.
Section 919.16 | Possession as Evidence of Sale - Exception.
Section 919.17 | Prosecution Proceedings.
Section 919.18 | Co-Operation With Federal Food and Drug Administration.
Section 919.19 | Moneys Collected Credited to General Revenue Fund.
Section 919.20 | Refrigeration With Other Foods.
Section 919.21 | Effect of Child Support Default on License.