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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 26. FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS · Chapter 2. STANDARDS, LABELING, AND ADULTERATION OF FOOD · Article 3. MEAT INSPECTION · Part 3. INSPECTION, HANDLING, AND LABELING STANDARDS

26-2-100. Duties of inspectors.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The Commissioner shall appoint, from time to time, inspectors to make examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, nontraditional livestock, rabbits, goats, horses, mules, and other equines, the inspection of which is provided for, and of all carcasses and parts thereof, and of all meats and meat food products thereof, and of the sanitary conditions of all establishments in which such meat and meat food products are prepared. Said inspectors shall refuse to stamp, mark, tag, or label any carcass or any part thereof, or meat food product therefrom, prepared in any establishment described in this chapter until the same shall have actually been inspected and found to be not adulterated. Said inspectors shall perform such other duties as are provided by this article and by the rules and regulations to be promulgated by the Commissioner.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1969, p. 1028, § 13; Ga. L. 1974, p. 453, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 244, § 15; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1219, § 4; Ga. L. 2008, p. 458, § 11/SB 364.

Administrative rules and regulations

Meat and Poultry Inspection Rules of Practice, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Meat and Poultry Inspection, Rule 40-10-5-.01 et seq.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t24-t26-(v21)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, pages 342 to 343; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8eab3bec6887.