21 U.S.C. § 606 : US Code - Section 606: Inspectors of meat food products; marks of inspection; destruction of condemned products; products for export

Search 21 U.S.C. § 606 : US Code - Section 606: Inspectors of meat food products; marks of inspection; destruction of condemned products; products for export

For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary shall cause
to be made, by inspectors appointed for that purpose, an
examination and inspection of all meat food products prepared for
commerce in any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing,
rendering, or similar establishment, and for the purposes of any
examination and inspection and inspectors shall have access at all
times, by day or night, whether the establishment be operated or
not, to every part of said establishment; and said inspectors shall
mark, stamp, tag, or label as "Inspected and passed" all such
products found to be not adulterated; and said inspectors shall
label, mark, stamp, or tag as "Inspected and condemned" all such
products found adulterated, and all such condemned meat food
products shall be destroyed for food purposes, as hereinbefore
provided, and the Secretary may remove inspectors from any
establishment which fails to so destroy such condemned meat food
products: Provided, That subject to the rules and regulations of
the Secretary the provisions of this section in regard to
preservatives shall not apply to meat food products for export to
any foreign country and which are prepared or packed according to
the specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser, when no
substance is used in the preparation or packing thereof in conflict
with the laws of the foreign country to which said article is to be
exported; but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered for
sale for domestic use or consumption then this proviso shall not
exempt said article from the operation of all the other provisions
of this chapter.