§ 21-13-4 - Regulations. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 21-13-4

   § 21-13-4  Regulations. – (a) The director of health is authorized to adopt regulations relating to thepremises, facilities, materials used, and procedures followed at places wherepoultry for human consumption is slaughtered, eviscerated, or processed orwhere poultry products for human consumption are prepared, insofar as theregulations relate to the health and protection of the public.

   (b) The director, for the health and protection of thepublic, is authorized to make ante-mortem inspections of poultry and toquarantine, or segregate, or re-inspect poultry or poultry products at anyplaces where poultry is slaughtered, eviscerated, or processed or poultryproducts are prepared. The director, for the health and protection of thepublic, is authorized to condemn and render inedible diseased or unwholesomepoultry or poultry products and to retain poultry or poultry products pendingtheir further examination. The director is authorized to adopt regulationsdealing with the identification of poultry and the marketing and labeling ofpoultry products or their containers, essential to the proper administration ofthis chapter.