Sec. 433.035. INSPECTION AND OTHER REGULATION OF EXOTIC ANIMALS IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. (a) The department has the same rights of examination, inspection, condemnation, and detention of live exotic animals and carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products of exotic animals slaughtered and prepared for shipment in interstate commerce as the department has with respect to exotic animals slaughtered and prepared for shipment in intrastate commerce.
(b) The department has the same rights of inspection of establishments handling exotic animals slaughtered and prepared for shipment in interstate commerce as the department has with respect to establishments handling exotic animals slaughtered and prepared for intrastate commerce.
(c) The record-keeping requirements of Section 433.034 that apply to persons slaughtering, preparing, buying, selling, transporting, storing, or rendering in intrastate commerce apply to persons performing similar functions with exotic animals in interstate commerce.
(d) A rulemaking power of the executive commissioner relating to animals in intrastate commerce applies to exotic animals in interstate commerce.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1045, eff. April 2, 2015.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 6 - Food, Drugs, Alcohol, and Hazardous Substances
Subtitle A - Food and Drug Health Regulations
Chapter 433 - Texas Meat and Poultry Inspection Act
Subchapter B. Inspection and Other Regulation
Section 433.021. Inspection Before Slaughter
Section 433.022. Inspection of Carcasses
Section 433.023. Investigation of Disease Findings; Quarantine
Section 433.024. Inspection of Processing and Slaughtering Establishments
Section 433.0245. Requirements for Certain Low-Volume Livestock Processing Establishments
Section 433.025. Inspection of Meat Food Products
Section 433.026. Night Inspection; Hours of Operation
Section 433.028. Refusal to Inspect
Section 433.029. Articles Not Intended for Human Consumption
Section 433.032. Storage and Handling
Section 433.033. Equine Products
Section 433.035. Inspection and Other Regulation of Exotic Animals in Interstate Commerce