Title 3 Agriculture
300 Animal Health and Food Product Inspection
301 Food Products Inspection
The Delaware Department of Agriculture, Food Products Inspection Section proposed to amend its regulations concerning the rules of practice that apply to agency enforcement actions by bringing them into the conformity with federal law. The Department proposed to define each type of enforcement action that it may take, the conditions under which it likely to take each of these actions, and the procedures it will follow in doing so.
The proposed amendments are part of the Department’s ongoing effort to consolidate, streamline, and clarify the meat and poultry product inspection regulations. To that end, the Department is proposed to adopt by reference, in their entirety, the federal regulations published in the Federal Register at Volume 64, Number 228, dated November 29, 1999, amending the Code of Federal Regulations at 9 CFR Sections 304, 305, 327, 335, 381 and adding a new Part 500 which became effective January 25, 2000.
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 are currently written and which are found at Subchapters A, E, and I of Title 9, Parts 301 through 592, excluding Parts 390 and 391, of the Code of Federal Regulations.
5 DE Reg. 1902 (4/1/02)
11 DE Reg. 1622 (06/01/08)
