A. The Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act shall apply to:

1. All carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines or the meat or meat products thereof, capable of use as human food, which may be brought into any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, where inspection under the Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act is maintained. Examination and inspection shall be made before the carcasses or parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any department wherein the same are to be treated and prepared for meat food products; and

2. All such products which, after having been issued from any such slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, shall be returned to the same or to any similar establishment where such inspection is maintained.

B. The Board may limit the entry of carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products, and other materials into any establishment at which inspection under the Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act is maintained, under the conditions as it may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such inspected establishments will be consistent with the purposes of the Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act.

Amended by Laws 1985, SB 124, c. 38, § 4, eff. November 1, 1985; Amended by Laws 2000, SB 1424, c. 367, § 64, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000 (superseded document available).