Ohio Revised Code Chapter 919 - Horse Meat

• Section 919.01 - Horse Meat Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Horse meat market" means any establishment in which the parts of horses are processed and sold, or exposed...
• Section 919.02 - License - Registration - Fee.
  Any person responsible for the operation of any establishment in which horses or parts thereof are processed and sold, exposed, or offered for sale...
• Section 919.03 - Horse Meat To Be Labeled By Processor.
  All horse carcasses, horse meat, and horse meat food products sold, or exposed or offered for sale at retail in this state shall be...
• Section 919.04 - Inspection Stamp.
  The director of agriculture shall prescribe the wording of a sanitary or wholesomeness inspection stamp used on a horse carcass, horse meat, or horse...
• Section 919.05 - Alteration Of Labels Or Stamps.
  No person shall deface, alter, or remove any slaughterer or processor identification labels, or of any impression made by a horse meat inspection stamp...
• Section 919.06 - Detention Tag - Order For Condemnation - Supervision.
  Whenever the director of agriculture finds or has reasonable cause to believe that any horse carcass, horse meat, or any horse meat food product,...
• Section 919.07 - Sign To Be Displayed By Establishment.
  No proprietor, manager, or person in charge of a meat market, hotel, restaurant, lunchroom, cafeteria, or eating house, industrial, fraternal, educational, or otherwise, in...
• Section 919.08 - Suspension Or Revocation Of License Because Of Unsanitary Conditions.
  Any establishment or place where horse meat or horse meat food products are processed, handled, transported, sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail...
• Section 919.09 - Investigations - Examination Of Samples.
  The director of agriculture shall make all necessary investigations pertinent to enforcement of this chapter, and for that purpose shall have access at all...
• Section 919.10 - Adulteration - Definition.
  Any horse meat food product is adulterated if it includes any ingredient which is foreign to or in excess of standards prescribed for the...
• Section 919.11 - Prohibitions - Labeling Of Horse Meat Fed To Animals.
  No person shall mix horse meat with the parts of any other animal, sell, offer, or expose for sale any such mixture for human...
• Section 919.12 - Records Of Sales.
  Any person who sells at retail any horse carcass or horse meat for human consumption in a lot exceeding five pounds in weight in...
• Section 919.13 - Exemption Of Persons Subject To Other Inspection Service.
  No person responsible for the operation of any establishment is subject to this chapter or rules adopted pursuant thereto, if he operates the establishment...
• Section 919.14 - Application For Exempted Inspection Service Status.
  The responsible head of any federal inspection service, district health department inspection service, or municipal inspection service may make application annually to the director...
• Section 919.15 - Administrative Rules.
  The director of agriculture shall enforce this chapter and, subject to the provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may adopt such reasonable...
• Section 919.16 - Possession As Evidence Of Sale - Exception.
  Possession by any person of any horse carcass, dressed horse meat, or any horse meat food product constitutes prima-facie evidence that such commodity is...
• Section 919.17 - Prosecution Proceedings.
  The attorney general or the prosecuting attorney or city director of law to whom the director of agriculture reports any violation of sections 919.01...
• Section 919.18 - Co-operation With Federal Food And Drug Administration.
  The director of agriculture may act in conjunction with the federal food and drug administration in the regulation of the movement and sale of...
• Section 919.19 - Moneys Collected Credited To General Revenue Fund.
  All registration fees collected under sections 919.01 to 919.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the director of agriculture and deposited...
• Section 919.20 - Refrigeration With Other Foods.
  No proprietor of a market shall place horse meat or a horse meat food product, which is intended as a pet or animal food,...
• Section 919.21 - Effect Of Child Support Default On License.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50...
• Section 919.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates sections 919.01 to 919.20 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Effective Date: 06-20-1994

Last modified: October 10, 2016