The Florida Senate

585.77  Postmortem inspection.--

(1)  POSTMORTEM INSPECTION OF ANIMALS, EXCEPT POULTRY.--The department shall provide postmortem inspection of all animals, except poultry, slaughtered for food purposes in any establishment in the state operating under the provisions of this part. The head, tongue, tail, glands, viscera, and other parts and blood used in the preparation of meat, meat byproducts, or meat food products shall be retained in such manner as to preserve their identities until the postmortem examination has been completed. Carcasses and parts of such carcasses found to be sound, healthful, unadulterated, and wholesome after inspection, and otherwise fit for human food, shall be marked in the following manner: "Florida Inspected and Passed." This mark shall include the Grant of Inspection number of the establishment.

(2)  POSTMORTEM INSPECTION OF POULTRY.--The department shall provide postmortem inspection of all poultry slaughtered for food purposes in any establishment in the state operating under the provisions of this part. Carcasses and parts of such carcasses found to be sound, healthful, unadulterated, and wholesome after inspection, and otherwise fit for human food, shall be marked in the following manner: "Florida Inspected for Wholesomeness." This mark shall also include the Grant of Inspection number of the establishment.

(3)  CONDEMNATION OF ANIMAL CARCASSES OR PARTS.--Each animal carcass or part of such carcass of any animal, except poultry, which is found upon postmortem inspection to be unsound, unhealthful, adulterated, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food shall be marked conspicuously by the inspector at the time of inspection with the words "Florida Inspected and Condemned." Such carcass or part of such carcass shall be made unfit for human consumption, under the supervision of the inspector, in a manner approved by the department. The department may remove inspectors from any such establishment which fails to make unfit for human consumption any such condemned carcass or part of such carcass. When deemed necessary, inspectors shall reinspect such carcass or part of such carcass to determine whether the same has adequately been made unfit for human consumption.

(4)  CONDEMNATION OF POULTRY PRODUCTS OR BYPRODUCTS.--All poultry byproducts, poultry meat and parts of such meat, and other poultry food products found to be adulterated shall be condemned and, if no appeal is taken from such determination of condemnation, be made unfit for human food purposes under the supervision of the department. Poultry byproducts, carcasses, parts, and products which may, by reprocessing, be made wholesome need not be condemned and made unfit and may be reprocessed under the supervision of the department. If an appeal is made of such determination, the poultry byproducts, carcasses, parts, or products shall be appropriately marked and segregated pending completion of an appeal inspection. If the determination of condemnation is sustained, the poultry byproducts, carcasses, parts, and products shall be made unfit for human consumption under the supervision of the department.

History.--s. 50, ch. 90-321.