Alabama Administrative Code
Title 80 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
Chapter 80-3-10 - MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION
Section 80-3-10-.01 - Purpose

The purpose of this Chapter is to implement the requirements of those statutes which regulate meat and poultry inspections set out in Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 2-17-1, et seq. Such statutes were enacted by the Legislature to provide the inhabitants of the State of Alabama with wholesome, properly labeled and packaged meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry food products by requiring that such food products be slaughtered, inspected, handled, packaged, transported and distributed in accordance with the requirements and in keeping with the purpose of the aforesaid legislative enactments and for the additional purpose of cooperating with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in developing and administering an effective meat and poultry inspection program in this state by establishing requirements which equal those imposed by the applicable provisions of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 and the Mandatory Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1968). Therefore, the State Board of Agriculture and Industries deems it necessary in implementing the provisions of these acts to adopt certain meat and poultry inspection requirements and regulations heretofore adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture for the administration and enforcement of the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 and the Mandatory Poultry Products Inspection Act as heretofore enacted by the Congress of the United States. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries also deems it necessary in carrying out the intent and purpose of the state meat and poultry statutes as same relates to and governs the inspection of poultry and poultry food products, in implementing the provisions thereof with respect to said products, to adopt certain poultry inspection requirements and regulations heretofore adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture for administration and enforcement of the Mandatory Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1968 as enacted by the Congress of the United States.

Author: Charles H. Barnes

Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 2-17-2(b), 2-17-21.