97.44 Identification of meat for animal feed; registration and records of buyers.
(1) No person shall buy, sell or transport any carcasses, parts thereof or meat or meat food products of any animals which are not intended for use as human food, unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by rules of the department or are naturally inedible by humans.
(2) Animal feed manufacturers and operators of fur farms, exempt from s. 95.72, shall register their names and business locations with the department if they engage in slaughtering animals or in buying dead animals or parts of the carcasses of such animals. The department, by rule, may require that they keep records of their purchase and disposition of such animals and carcass parts.
(3) As used in this section, “animals" means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, equines, farm-raised deer, as defined in s. 95.001 (1) (ag), and poultry, except in the phrase “animal feed manufacturers".
History: 1975 c. 308; 1995 a. 79; 2001 a. 56.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 97 - Food, lodging, and recreation.
97.02 - Standards; adulterated food.
97.03 - Standards; misbranding.
97.13 - Sale of fish flour regulated.
97.17 - Buttermaker and cheesemaker license.
97.175 - Butter and cheese grader license requirements.
97.176 - Butter; grading; label.
97.177 - Cheese; grading; labeling.
97.18 - Oleomargarine regulations.
97.21 - Milk haulers and milk distributors.
97.23 - Drug residues in milk.
97.24 - Milk and milk products.
97.25 - Use of synthetic bovine growth hormone; labeling of dairy products.
97.29 - Food processing plants.
97.30 - Retail food establishments.
97.305 - Restaurants serving fish.
97.307 - Average annual surveys.
97.32 - Special dairy and food inspectors.
97.33 - Certificate of food protection practices.
97.34 - Bottled drinking water and soda water beverage; standards; sampling and analysis.
97.41 - Retail food: agent status for local health departments.
97.42 - Compulsory inspection of livestock or poultry, and meat or poultry products.
97.43 - Meat from dead or diseased animals.
97.44 - Identification of meat for animal feed; registration and records of buyers.
97.57 - Planted or cultivated rice.
97.60 - Coordination; certification.
97.605 - Lodging and vending licenses.
97.607 - Pre-licensing inspection.
97.61 - Vending machine commissary outside the state.
97.615 - Agent status for local health departments.
97.617 - Application; lodging and vending.
97.62 - Health and safety; standard.
97.625 - Powers of the department and local health departments.
97.627 - Causing fires by tobacco smoking.
97.633 - Hotelkeeper's liability.
97.634 - Hotelkeeper's liability for baggage; limitation.
97.635 - Liability of hotelkeeper for loss of property by fire or theft; owner's risk.
97.638 - Hotel rates posted; rate charges; special rates.
97.67 - Recreational licenses and fees.
97.70 - Authority of department of safety and professional services.