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(a) The following classes of persons shall keep such records as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses; and all persons subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the Secretary, afford such representative access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor.(1) Any person engaged, in intrastate commerce, in the business of slaughtering animals, or preparing, refrigerating, freezing, packaging or labeling of meats for use as human food or animal food.(2) Any person engaged, in intrastate commerce, in the business of buying or selling, as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise, or transporting or storing meat in said commerce.(3) Any person engaged, in intrastate commerce, in the business of processing fats and by-products or in the business of buying, selling, or transporting dead, dying, disabled or injured, or diseased animals or their meat if any such animals died otherwise than by slaughter in

fats and by-products or in the business of buying, selling, or transporting dead, dying, disabled or injured, or diseased animals or their meat if any such animals died otherwise than by slaughter in an authorized slaughterhouse.(b) Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for such period of time as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe. History —June 28, 1969, No. 120, p. 334, § 202.