California Code of Regulations
Title 3 - Food and Agriculture
Division 2 - Animal Industry
Chapter 10 - Animal Confinement
Article 3 - Breeding Pigs
Section 1322.1 - Breeding Pig Confinement
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) No person shall knowingly engage in a commercial sale within the state of whole pork meat for human food if the whole pork meat is the product of a breeding pig, or the product of the immediate offspring of a breeding pig, that was confined at any time during the production cycle for said product in an enclosure that fails to comply with the following standards:
(b) Commencing January 1, 2024, any person engaged in business in the state as a pork producer, or any out-of-state pork producer that is keeping, maintaining, confining, and/or housing a breeding pig for purposes of producing whole pork meat, from the breeding pig or its immediate offspring, for human food for commercial sale in California, shall hold a valid certification issued pursuant to Article 5 of this Chapter as a certified operation.
1. New section filed 9-1-2022; operative 9-1-2022 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2022, No. 35). Filing deadline specified in Government Code section 11349.3(a) extended 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-40-20 and an additional 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-71-20.
Note: Authority cited: Section 25993, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 25990, 25991 and 25992, Health and Safety Code.