65-6a32. Storage and handling of meat, poultry and food products; rules and regulations. The secretary of agriculture may prescribe by rules and regulations the conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products of livestock and poultry and poultry products, which are capable of use as human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, distributing or transporting in or for intrastate commerce such articles whenever the secretary of agriculture deems such action necessary to assure that such articles will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer. Violation of any such rule and regulation is prohibited.

History: L. 1969, ch. 296, § 15; L. 1985, ch. 211, § 11; L. 1993, ch. 127, § 2; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 97; July 1.