Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 433.030. Detention

(a) The department may detain a carcass, part of a carcass, meat, a meat food product of livestock, a product exempted from the definition of meat food product, or a dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock animal if the department finds the article on premises where it is held for purposes of intrastate commerce, or during or after distribution in intrastate commerce, and there is reason to believe that the article:

(b) An article may be detained for not more than 20 days and only pending action under Section 433.031 or notification of a federal authority having jurisdiction over the article.

(c) A person may not move a detained article from the place where it is detained until the article is released by the department.

(d) The department may require that each official mark be removed from the article before it is released, unless the department determines that the article is eligible to bear the official mark.