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... time such product leaves the establishment, bear in distinctly legible form the official inspection mark and the plant number of the establishment in which the contents were processed and inspected. Each immediate container of poultry product inspected under the authority of section 918.22 of the Revised Code and found to be wholesome in accordance with regulations adopted under section 918.25 of the Revised Code sh...

... U.S.C.A. 451, as amended by the "Wholesome Poultry Products Act," 82 Stat. 791 (1968); (B) Use any written, printed, or graphic matter upon, or accompanied with any poultry product inspected or required to be inspected pursuant to section 918.22 of the Revised Code, or on the container thereof, that is false or misleading in any particular. (C) No person shall knowingly offer for sale or sell adulterated poultry o...

...ed States department of agriculture in compliance with section 918.44 of the Revised Code, the director shall establish and maintain a state acceptance service within the department of agriculture to examine and monitor compliance by meat and poultry vendors with the specifications of the state purchase contracts awarded them under section 125.11 of the Revised Code, and by establishments, as defined in section 918.0...

...tor; (C) Provision for a means of random sampling and analyzing of meat products and poultry products supplied under state purchase contracts; (D) Procedures for investigating complaints from the staff and clientele of state institutions about meat products and poultry products purchased under state purchase contracts and for removal from the approved meat and poultry vendors list of any vendor, or for the suspen...

...d or account administered by the department.

...ucts in the state. The agreement shall comply with sections 125.111 and 126.07 of the Revised Code. (B) If the director enters into an agreement pursuant to division (A) of this section, he shall appoint the employees of the department of agriculture to be trained and licensed by the United States department of agriculture as meat graders. The director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised ...

...f the Revised Code with respect to a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

...or of the fourth degree; on a second offense and each subsequent offense, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (B) Whoever violates division (C) of section 918.11 or division (C) of section 918.31 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

...esting necessary to determine the wholesomeness, sanitary conditions, adulteration, misbranding, quality, and purity of horse meat products or the sanitary condition of horse meat processing establishments. (D) "Processing" means to perform any act incidental to the manufacture, preparation, development, or changing of horse meat to convert it into marketable form to be sold or offered for sale at retail. (E) "Hors...

... department of agriculture and secure from the director of agriculture a license to operate each separate establishment in which horses or parts thereof are processed and sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail. No person responsible for the operation of such a processing establishment shall operate the enterprise without first securing a license to engage in such business. All licenses shall be valid to and inc...

...All horse carcasses, horse meat, and horse meat food products sold, or exposed or offered for sale at retail in this state shall be labeled by the processor thereof to show his name and address and the name of the carcasses, horse meat, and horse meat food product.

...be the wording of a sanitary or wholesomeness inspection stamp used on a horse carcass, horse meat, or horse meat food product or on the covering, wrapper, or container of such commodity when the commodity is intended for human food that is processed, sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail in the state. The wording of the stamp shall specify that a sanitary inspection or an inspection for wholesomeness has been...

...ture, so as in any manner to cause the commodities to be unbranded or misbranded.

... remove the carcass, meat, or product from the premises where detained until permission is given to do so in writing by the director or by court order. If the detained carcass, meat, or product is found, after examination and analysis by the director, to be unfit for human food or to be misbranded, unbranded, or adulterated, the director shall petition the judge of any court having jurisdiction for an order for conde...

...white and not less than twelve by eighteen inches in size, upon which shall be printed in plain black Roman letters, "Horse Meat Sold Here" or "Horse Meat Served Here," whichever is applicable.

...r to prevent contamination of the food commodities that might render them unfit for human consumption. If such an establishment is maintained or operated in an unsanitary manner that causes or permits contamination of the food commodities, rendering them unfit for human consumption, the person responsible for the maintenance or operation violates this chapter or rules adopted pursuant thereto, and his license to oper...

...all reasonable hours to any building, room, vehicle, ship, or other premises in which any horse carcass, horse meat, or horse meat food product is processed, packed, transported, sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail. No person shall deny access to the director or hinder, thwart, or defeat any investigation by misrepresentation or concealment of facts or conditions. The director may secure samples or specimen...

...cribed for the product in regulations promulgated by the director of agriculture; any artificial coloring, flavoring, chemicals, or preservatives not approved in regulations promulgated by the director; any meat of other animals; or any substance unfit for human food or dangerous to human health. The director may seize and destroy, without compensation to the owner, any unlawful ingredient, chemical, preservative, o...

...ncluded in a horse meat food product intended for human consumption. Any horse carcass, horse meat, or horse meat food product sold, offered, or exposed for sale, which is unlabeled as to use or is labeled as pet or animal food, shall be decharacterized with charcoal or green food dye. Suggestive pictures or designs on the label shall be considered as indicative of the use of the product. However, any horse meat or ...

...ntity sold. All such records shall be open for inspection by the director of agriculture during any regular business hours.

...ible for the operation of any establishment is subject to this chapter or rules adopted pursuant thereto, if he operates the establishment under the jurisdiction of the federal inspection service, a district health department inspection service, or a municipal inspection service that has been approved by the director of agriculture and has been designated as an exempted inspection service.

...o labeling, stamping, sanitation, wholesomeness, adulteration, standards, and sales record keeping, such organization shall be so designated. Such approval shall be valid to and including the thirtieth day of June following date of designation.

...pt such reasonable rules pertaining to commodity labeling, sanitary standards for the processing of horse meat, or the sanitary condition and wholesomeness of horse meat food products intended for human consumption, or otherwise, as are considered necessary to carry this chapter into full effect.

...titutes prima-facie evidence that such commodity is for sale; provided, that this section does not apply to any person who has purchased dressed horse meat or horse meat food products for his personal consumption.

...g attorney or city director of law to whom the director of agriculture reports any violation of sections 919.01 to 919.20 of the Revised Code, shall institute prosecution proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction in which the defendant resides, where his licensed place of business is located, or where the violation occurs. This section does not require the director to report any information concerning a sus...