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Tennessee Code Title 53. Food, Drugs and Cosmetics § 53-7-208

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

<Text of section effective May 9, 2025, for purposes of promulgating rules, and for all other purposes, effective thirty days following the commissioner of agriculture's receipt from the United States department of agriculture, food safety and inspection service, that the requirements of the federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.) necessary to a cooperative agreement for a state meat inspection program have been met.>

(a) Custom operations are subject only to provisions of this part relating to licensing, registration, humane slaughter, humane handling, sanitation, misbranding, and adulteration.

(b) The commissioner may exempt from state meat inspection any animals or their meat or meat food products that are processed for custom operations;  provided, that:

(1) The custom operations occur in a facility that is licensed under this part;

(2) The facility separates at all times carcasses, meat, meat food products, and their containers prepared on a custom basis from inspected carcasses, meat, or meat food products, and their containers prepared for sale;

(3) The facility plainly marks all articles and their containers prepared on a custom basis as “Not for Sale”.  The mark must be made immediately after being packaged and the article kept so identified until delivered to the owner;  and

(4) The facility is maintained and operated in a sanitary manner.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), custom operations shall provide the department of agriculture, upon showing of proper credentials, free access and opportunity to examine custom operation facilities and equipment, to review and copy records, and to take reasonable samples of inventory or product as necessary to determine whether the custom operation qualifies for exemption from regular inspections and is otherwise in compliance with this part.

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