Code of Virginia - Title 3.2 Agriculture, Animal Care, And Food - Chapter 54 Slaughterhouses, Meat, And Dressed Poultry

3.2-5400 (Effective October 1, 2008) Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Animal food manufacturer" means any person engaged in the business of preparing animal ...

3.2-5401 (Effective October 1, 2008) Adulterated livestock product or poultry product.
Any livestock product or poultry product shall be deemed to be adulterated: 1. If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may ...

3.2-5402 (Effective October 1, 2008) Misbranded livestock product or poultry product.
Any livestock product or poultry product shall be deemed to be misbranded: 1. If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular; 2. If ...

3.2-5403 (Effective October 1, 2008) Department to cooperate with U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Department shall cooperate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in administration of this chapter to provide for meat and poultry products inspection programs. These ...

3.2-5404 (Effective October 1, 2008) Duties of the Board.
In order to accomplish the objective stated in § 3.2-5403, the Board: 1. Shall, by regulations, require antemortem and postmortem inspections, quarantine, segregation and reinspections ...

3.2-5405 (Effective October 1, 2008) Powers of Commissioner.
A. The Commissioner may: 1. Order removal of inspectors from any establishment that fails to destroy condemned products as required under subdivision 2 of § ...

3.2-5406 (Effective October 1, 2008) Meat inspection regulations.
A. The Commissioner may adopt: (i) by reference any regulation under the federal acts as it pertains to this chapter, amending it as necessary for ...

3.2-5407 (Effective October 1, 2008) Prohibitions in general.
A. No person shall, with respect to any livestock or poultry or any livestock products or poultry products: 1. Slaughter any such animals or prepare ...

3.2-5408 (Effective October 1, 2008) Prohibitions against unauthorized use of any official marks.
A. No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or ...

3.2-5409 (Effective October 1, 2008) Prohibitions against intrastate distribution of equine products...
A. No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses of horses, mules, or other ...

3.2-5410 (Effective October 1, 2008) Prohibitions of bribery or gifts to state employees; assaults or interf...
A. Any person that shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any officer or employee of the Commonwealth authorized to perform any of ...

3.2-5411 (Effective October 1, 2008) Limitation of inspection to plants preparing products for human food...
Inspection shall not be provided under this chapter at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or poultry or the preparation of any livestock products ...

3.2-5412 (Effective October 1, 2008) Inspection of products placed in container; right of access to plants a...
A. No inspection of products placed in any container at any official establishment shall be deemed to be complete until the products are sealed or ...

3.2-5413 (Effective October 1, 2008) Administrative detention of violative animals and products.
Whenever any livestock product or poultry product exempted from the definition of a livestock product and from the definition of a poultry product, or any ...

3.2-5414 (Effective October 1, 2008) Seizure and condemnation provisions.
A. Any livestock product or poultry product or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry that is being transported in intrastate commerce, or ...

3.2-5415 (Effective October 1, 2008) General criminal penalties; warning letter.
A. Any person that violates any provisions of this chapter for which no other criminal penalty is provided is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. ...

3.2-5416 (Effective October 1, 2008) Authority of Commissioner.
The Commissioner shall have power: 1. To gather and compile information concerning and, to investigate the organization, business, conduct, practices, and management of any person ...

3.2-5417 (Effective October 1, 2008) Power of injunction.
The Commissioner is authorized to apply to any appropriate court for an injunction and such court may grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining a ...

3.2-5418 (Effective October 1, 2008) Limitation on applicability of chapter to matters regulated under feder...
The requirements of this chapter shall apply to persons, establishments, animals, and articles regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Federal Poultry Products ...

3.2-5419 (Effective October 1, 2008) Smithfield hams defined.
Genuine Smithfield hams are hereby defined to be hams processed, treated, smoked, aged, cured by the long-cure, dry salt method of cure and aged for ...

3.2-5420 (Effective October 1, 2008) Only genuine Smithfield hams to be labeled or advertised as such...
No person shall knowingly, label, stamp, pack, advertise, sell, or offer for sale any ham, either wrapped or unwrapped, in a container or loose, as ...

3.2-5421 (Effective October 1, 2008) Penalty for violation.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor. (Code 1950, § 3-671; 1966, c. 702, § ...