SECTIONS 18811-18814 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 18811-18814

18811. For the purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section
18691) of this chapter, the director may exempt the operations of any
person from inspection or other requirements of this chapter to the
extent such operations would be exempt from the corresponding
requirements under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Federal
Poultry Products Inspection Act if they were conducted in interstate
commerce or if the state were designated as one in which the federal
requirements apply to intrastate commerce by the federal acts.

18812. The director shall exempt from inspection the slaughtering
and preparation by any person of any livestock or poultry of his own
raising, exclusively for use by him, members of his household, his
nonpaying guests, or employees, and may exempt any other operation
which the director determines would best be exempted to further the
purposes of this chapter, to the extent such exemption conforms to
the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Federal Poultry Products
Inspection Act and the regulations thereunder.

18813. The director shall not provide inspection under this chapter
at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or poultry or
the preparation of any livestock product or poultry product that is
not intended for use as human food. The product, unless naturally
inedible by humans, shall be denatured or otherwise identified as
prescribed by the director, prior to being offered for sale or
transportation in intrastate commerce, to prevent its use as human
food, and shall be in compliance with Chapter 5 (commencing with
Section 19200) of this part and Chapter 10 (commencing with Section
113025) of Part 6 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code.

18814. (a) This chapter shall apply to a retail store only to the
same extent as the federal acts and regulations issued thereunder are
applicable to retail stores, except as provided in subdivision (b).
(b) No livestock product or poultry product shall be prepared at
any such retail store by curing, drying, smoking, or rendering, nor
any livestock product of swine by cooking.