771b

With the purpose of avoiding the use in intrastate commerce of adulterated meat and meat food products, as hereinafter provided, the Secretary shall order the examination and inspection, by means of inspectors appointed by him for such purposes, of every animal before entering a slaughtering, packing, canning, fat and by-products processing establishment, or any similar establishment in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where the slaughtering of animals and the preparation of its meats and meat food products is being carried out only for intrastate commerce; and all animals that by virtue of such inspection appear to have symptoms of disease shall be isolated and slaughtered separately from all the other healthy animals. Once slaughtered, said animals, their meat and organs capable of use as human food shall be the object of a careful examination and inspection, to be performed as provided by regulations prescribed by the Secretary. History —June 28, 1969, No. 120, p. 334, § 3.