Title 3 Agriculture
Food Product Inspection
301 Food Products Inspection
1.0 Authority
1.1 These proposed amendments to existing Delaware regulations as well as the adoption of new regulations governing meat, poultry, and egg products inspection and the humane slaughtering of livestock are promulgated pursuant to the Department's authority specifically set forth in Section 8708(8) of Title 3 of the Delaware Code.
11 DE Reg. 1622 (06/01/08)
2.0 Purpose
2.1 The purpose of these proposed regulations is to re-establish the standards and procedures for the meat, poultry, and egg product inspection programs of Delaware as well as Delaware's humane slaughtering of livestock procedures so that they shall be equal to those imposed by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Federal Poultry Inspection Act, the Federal Egg Products Inspection Act and the Federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act with respect to operations occurring within the State of Delaware.
11 DE Reg. 1622 (06/01/08)
3.0 Substantive Provisions
3.1 The Department adopts and incorporates by reference herein the rules, regulations, definitions and standards of the U.S. Department of Agriculture governing meat and meat products inspection, poultry products inspection, voluntary inspection of poultry, egg and egg products inspection and humane methods for slaughtering animals as they currently appear, and as they may be amended from time to time, at Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapters A, E, and I, Parts 301 through 592, excluding Parts 390 and 391.
5 DE Reg. 1902 (4/1/02)
11 DE Reg. 1622 (06/01/08)
16 DE Reg. 196 (08/01/12)
