SECTIONS 19380-19385 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 19380-19385

19380. The director may adopt rules or regulations necessary to
carry out the purpose of this chapter.

19381. The director shall by regulation promulgate minimum
standards for the fitness of pet food so that the health of the
animals and citizens of this state will not be endangered by
unwholesome or tainted animal food.

19382. The director may establish by regulation, requirements to
insure that vehicles used to transport dead animals and carcasses or
parts or products of animals which have died other than by slaughter
will not create a public health problem and that such animals,
carcasses or parts or products are not diverted to human or pet food.

19383. The director shall establish by regulation, requirements for
the slaughter of animals and inspection of pet food, to insure that
it is wholesome, untainted, not adulterated, properly labeled, and
fit for pet food, and for the handling and disposal of condemned meat
or meat byproducts to prevent their use as human or pet food.

19384. The director shall establish by regulation the conditions
under which carcasses or parts or products of animals for pet food
may be processed, transported, and stored so as to prevent diversion
into human food channels.

19385. The director may establish regulations to permit the sale
and distribution of food for crab bait and for the feeding of mink
and zoo animals under conditions which will conform to the purposes
of this chapter but without compliance with such portions thereof
which the director finds are unnecessary under any special
circumstances involved.