La. Rev. Stat. § 3:4205

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Reinspection upon reentry

Official statutory text

The foregoing provisions shall apply to all carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle, sheep, poultry, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines or the meat or meat products or poultry products thereof, capable of use as human food, which may be brought into any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, where inspection under this Chapter is maintained, and such examination and inspection shall be made before the said carcasses or parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any department wherein the same are to be treated and prepared for meat food products; and the foregoing provisions shall also apply to all such products which, after having been issued from any such slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering or similar establishment, shall be returned to the same or to any similar establishment where such inspection is maintained. The commissioner may limit the entry of carcasses, part of carcasses, meat, meat food products, poultry products and other materials into any establishment at which inspection under this Chapter is maintained, under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such inspected establishments will be consistent with the purposes of this Chapter.

Acts 1968, No. 376, §4. Amended by Acts 1970, No. 615, §1; Acts 1985, No. 73, §1.

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