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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 433.029

ARTICLES NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

Known as the Texas Meat and Poultry Inspection Act

The act spans §§ 433–433 (64 sections).

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff

(a) Under this subchapter, the department may not inspect an establishment for the slaughter of livestock or the preparation of carcasses, parts of carcasses, or products of livestock if the articles are not intended for use as human food. Before offered for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce, those articles, unless naturally inedible by humans, shall be denatured or identified as provided by department rule to deter their use for human food.

(b) A person may not buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in intrastate commerce a carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or a meat food product that is not intended for use as human food unless the article is naturally inedible by humans, denatured, or identified as required by department rule.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.