SECTIONS 25021-25024 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 25021-25024

25021. This chapter, except Section 25128, does not apply to
poultry meat which has been inspected and passed for wholesomeness by
the United States Department of Agriculture if the immediate
container or carcass of the poultry meat bears the official
wholesomeness inspection mark of such department at the time of sale.
If, however, any cooking, curing, smoking, packing, repacking,
cutting up or recutting is done in this state, except in a retail
store or public eating house, it shall be done in a poultry plant
under federal or state inspection.

25022. This chapter, except Section 25128, does not apply to
poultry meat which bears the official mark of a city, county, or
state poultry meat inspection service for wholesomeness in another
state which has requirements equal to those provided for in this
chapter, if such out-of-state requirements have been approved by the
director.

25023. (a) This chapter does not apply to poultry meat which is
derived from poultry which is produced upon the premises where it is
slaughtered if the poultry meat is sold by the producer in any of the
following ways:
(1) At retail on the premises.
(2) At retail by the producer of the poultry meat off of the
premises, either direct to consumers at their homes or at a retail
stand which is operated by the producer in a farmers' market.
(b) As used in this section, "producer" includes only an
individual producer who does not employ, except in unforeseeable
exigencies, any person except members of his or her immediate family.

25024. This chapter does not apply to poultry meat which is derived
from poultry which is slaughtered, dressed, and sold on the premises
where it is produced for purposes other than resale, if the entire
poultry meat output of the producer of such poultry is so sold.