24:16B-2 - Declaration of policy - New Jersey Statutes

24:16B-2.  Declaration of policy    It is essential to the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected by assuring that meat and meat food products distributed  to them are wholesome, unadulterated, and properly marked, labeled and  packaged.  Unwholesome, adulterated or mislabeled meat or meat food products  are injurious to the public health and welfare;  and may provide unfair  competition to wholesome, unadulterated, and properly labeled and packaged meat  and meat food products.  Therefore, it is hereby declared to be the policy of  the State of New Jersey to provide for the inspection of animals to be  slaughtered, and the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products  processed therefrom, capable of use as human food, at certain establishments in  order to prevent the distribution, for human consumption, of animals, meat and  meat food products, which are unwholesome, adulterated, misbranded, improperly  labeled or otherwise unfit for use as human food.

     L.1961, c. 105, s. 2, eff. July 1, 1968.