21 U.S.C. § 642 : US Code - Section 642: Recordkeeping requirements

Search 21 U.S.C. § 642 : US Code - Section 642: Recordkeeping requirements

(a) Classes of persons bound; scope of disclosure; access to places
of business; examination of records, facilities, and inventories;
copies; samples
The following classes of persons, firms, and corporations shall
keep such records as will fully and correctly disclose all
transactions involved in their businesses; and all persons, firms,
and corporations subject to such requirements shall, at all
reasonable times upon notice by a duly authorized representative of
the Secretary, afford such representative access to their places of
business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and
records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable
samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value
therefor -
(1) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage, for
commerce, in the business of slaughtering any cattle, sheep,
swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or preparing,
freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or
products of carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human food
or animal food;
(2) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in the
business of buying or selling (as meat brokers, wholesalers or
otherwise), or transporting in commerce, or storing in or for
commerce, or importing, any carcasses, or parts or products of
carcasses, of any such animals;
(3) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in
business, in or for commerce, as renderers, or engage in the
business of buying, selling, or transporting, in commerce, or
importing, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep,
swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the
carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by
slaughter.
(b) Period of maintenance
Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be
maintained for such period of time as the Secretary may by
regulations prescribe.