(a) Inspections.--As a precondition to the issuance of a license under this subchapter and as a continuing condition of such licensure, the department shall inspect an applicant's or licensee's dead domestic animal disposal plants, facilities, equipment or vehicles for compliance with this chapter and its attendant regulations.
(b) Disposal methods.--All carcasses, domestic animal parts, offal or other animal waste received or generated by a licensee under this subchapter shall be processed in accordance with such time limits, sanitation standards, personnel requirements and biosecurity standards as are necessary to prevent the spread of transmissible disease or dangerous transmissible disease. The department may formalize these limits or standards through regulation.