United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 21. FOOD AND DRUGS |
Chapter 12. MEAT INSPECTION |
SubChapter I. INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING |
§ 617. Clearance prohibited to vessel carrying meat for export without inspector’s certificate
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No clearance shall be given to any vessel having on board any fresh, salted, canned, corned, or packed beef, mutton, pork, goat or equine meat for export to and sale in a foreign country from any port in the United States, until the owner or shipper thereof shall obtain from an inspector appointed under the provisions of this chapter a certificate that the said amenable species were sound and healthy at the time of inspection, and that their meat is sound and wholesome, unless the Secretary shall have waived the requirements of such certificate for the country to which said amenable species or meats are to be exported.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 85 of this title.
Amendments
2005—Pub. L. 109–97 substituted “amenable species” for “cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” in two places.
1967—Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 3(b), 12(a), (g), struck out “of Agriculture” after “Secretary”, included horses, mules, and other equines in the list of animals, and substituted “goat or equine meat” for “or goat meat, being the meat of animals killed after
Effective Date Of Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 109–97 effective the day after 120 days after
Amendment by Pub. L. 90–201 effective