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...hment shall be made to the director of agriculture on forms provided by the department of agriculture. The director shall inspect the establishment and if, upon inspection, the establishment is found to be in compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it, the director shall so notify the owner of the establishment and, upon receipt of the annual license fee of one hundred dollars, shall issue the owne...

...An establishment licensed under section 918.28 of the Revised Code is exempt from ordinances, rules, or regulations of a political subdivision pertaining to the inspection of poultry or poultry products.

...cessed and packed. (B) The director of agriculture may by regulation adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code permit reasonable variations and grant exemptions from the foregoing labeling requirements in any manner not in conflict with the purposes of sections 918.21 to 918.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...No person shall do any of the following: (A) Sell or offer for sale, transport for sale, or deliver or receive for purpose of sale, any poultry product, unless the shipping container, if any, and immediate container, bear the markings and information required by section 918.30 of the Revised Code or by the "Poultry Products Inspection Act," 71 Stat. 441 (1957), 21 U.S.C.A. 451, as amended by the "Wholesome Poultry P...

...If the director of agriculture has not entered into an agreement with the United 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 ...

...If the director of agriculture decides to establish a state acceptance service, he shall adopt and enforce and may amend and rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary for the implementation, administration, and enforcement of this section and sections 918.41 and 918.43 of the Revised Code. The rules shall provide for the efficient operation of the state acceptance service and may in...

...The controlling board may transfer any surplus in the poultry and meat products fund beyond the needs of the fund for one fiscal year to any other fund or account administered by the department.

...(A) The director of agriculture may enter into an agreement with the United States department of agriculture authorizing employees of the department of agriculture to provide the federal meat grading and certification service to grade and certify meat, poultry, meat products, and poultry products in the state. The agreement shall comply with sections 125.111 and 126.07 of the Revised Code. (B) If the director enters...

...43 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

...(A) Whoever violates division (D) or (F) of section 918.02, division (A) or (B) of section 918.11, or section 918.03, 918.05, 918.06, 918.08, 918.12, 918.24, 918.26, 918.30, or 918.31 of the Revised Code, or any rules adopted under section 918.04, 918.11, or 918.25 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on a second offense and each subsequent offense, such person is guilty of a misdemean...

...vice of the United States department of agriculture. (K) "State inspection" means the horse meat inspection service maintained by the department of agriculture of this state. (L) "District health department inspection" means the horse meat inspection service maintained by district health departments. (M) "Municipal inspection" means the horse meat inspection service maintained by municipal corporation officials.

..., shall register with the 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 ...

...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.

...The director of agriculture shall prescribe 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...

...ion service approved by the director of agriculture, so as in any manner to cause the commodities to be unbranded or misbranded.

...Whenever the director of agriculture finds or has reasonable cause to believe that any horse carcass, horse meat, or any horse meat food product, being sold or exposed for sale at retail for human consumption, is unfit for human food, is misbranded, or is unbranded, or that any horse meat food product is adulterated, within the meaning of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant thereto, he shall affix to the product a...

...No proprietor, manager, or person in charge of a meat market, hotel, restaurant, lunchroom, cafeteria, or eating house, industrial, fraternal, educational, or otherwise, in which meals are served to the public, shall therein sell, serve, or use in cooking for consumption by the public, on or off the premises, horse meat or horse meat food products, without posting a sign in a conspicuous place, which shall be white a...

...Any establishment or place where horse meat or horse meat food products are processed, handled, transported, sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail for human food shall be maintained and operated in a sanitary manner 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 permit...

...The director of agriculture shall make all necessary investigations pertinent to enforcement of this chapter, and for that purpose shall have access at 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...

...ulations 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, or product to which any unlawf...

...No person shall mix horse meat with the parts of any other animal, sell, offer, or expose for sale any such mixture for human consumption within this state. No person shall sell for human consumption the tongue, diaphragm, heart, esophagus, lips, ears, or glands of a horse, nor shall these parts of a horse be included in a horse meat food product intended for human consumption. Any horse carcass, horse meat, or hor...

... open for inspection by the director of agriculture during any regular business hours.

...at has been approved by the director of agriculture and has been designated as an exempted inspection service.

...application annually to the director of agriculture for designation of the organization which he represents as being qualified for an exempted inspection service status if he furnishes all pertinent information required by the director. If the director determines that the applicant for such exempted inspection service status represents an organization which operates under authority and maintains an inspection servic...

...The director of agriculture shall enforce this chapter and, subject to the provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may adopt 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 ...