Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 433.032. Storage and Handling

(a) The executive commissioner may adopt rules prescribing conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products of livestock must be stored and handled by a person in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting those articles in or for intrastate commerce if the executive commissioner considers the rules necessary to prevent adulterated or misbranded articles from being delivered to a consumer.

(b) A person may not violate a rule adopted under this section.