Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 ILCS 650 — Meat and Poultry Inspection Act.

This Act may be cited as the Meat and Poultry Inspection Act

This Act may be cited as the Meat and Poultry Inspection Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1475.)

Definitions

Definitions. As used in this Act: "Adulterated" means any carcass, part thereof, meat or meat food product, or poultry or poultry food product under one or more of the following circumstances: (1) if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health; but in case the sub…

Licenses

Licenses. (a) No person shall operate an establishment as defined in Section 2 or act as a broker as defined in Section 2 without first securing a license from the Department except as otherwise exempted. Beginning July 1, 2018, licenses issued to Type I establishments and Type II establishments under this Act shall no…

Exemptions; producers, retailers, and poultry raisers

Exemptions; producers, retailers, and poultry raisers. The following types of establishments are exempt from the specific provisions of this Act: (A) A "producer" means any person engaged in producing agricultural products, for personal or family use, on whose farm the number of animals or poultry is in keeping with th…

Type I licenses

Type I licenses. (a) A Type I establishment licensed under this Act who sells or offers for sale meat, meat product, poultry, and poultry product, except as otherwise provided: (1) shall be permitted to receive meat, meat product, poultry, and poultry product for cutting, processing, preparing, packing, wrapping, chill…

Type II licenses

Type II licenses. (a) Type II establishments licensed under this Act for custom slaughtering and custom processing shall: (1) Be permitted to receive, for processing, meat products and poultry products from animals and poultry slaughtered by the owner or for the owner for his or her own personal use or for use by his o…

Recognition of Federal Inspection

Recognition of Federal Inspection. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to establishments, which operate subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act of March 4, 1907, as amended, or under the Poultry Products Inspection Act of August 28, 1957, as amended, or to meat or poultry products bearing the official inspect…

Administration

Administration. The Director of the Department of Agriculture shall administer this Act. For the purposes of this Act, the Director may employ graduates of a veterinary college recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association and other persons who have qualified and are skilled in the inspection of meat and po…

Medical Certificate

Medical Certificate. The licensee of a Type I establishment shall require all employees in his establishment to meet the health requirements established by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The Director may at any time require an employee of an establishment to submit to a health examination by a physician. No…

Antemortem Inspection

Antemortem Inspection. The Director shall, wherever slaughter operations are conducted at an establishment, cause antemortem inspection to be made by inspectors where and to the extent it determines necessary regarding all animals and poultry intended for human food. The owner or operator of any such establishment shal…

Postmortem Inspection

Postmortem Inspection. The Director shall provide postmortem inspection of all animals or poultry intended for human food in any Type I establishment in this State. Under no circumstances shall the carcass of animals or poultry which have died otherwise than by slaughter be brought into any room in which meat or poultr…

Time of operation

Time of operation. The Director shall require operations at Type I licensed establishments to be conducted under inspection and during approved hours of operation. The management of an official establishment desiring to work under conditions which will require the services of an inspector of the Department on any Satur…

Preparation and Handling

Preparation and Handling. (a) All meat or poultry products in channels of trade, whether fresh, frozen, smoked, cured, pickled, or otherwise prepared even though previously inspected and passed, shall be subject to reinspection by inspectors of the Department as often as may be necessary to determine whether such meat…

Official inspection legend, marking and labeling

Official inspection legend, marking and labeling. (a) It is unlawful for any person except employees of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Department or an authorized municipal inspection department to possess, use, or keep an inspection stamp, mark, or brand provided or used for stamping, marking, brandi…

Access to premises

Access to premises. No person shall deny access to any authorized personnel upon the presentation of proper identification at any reasonable time to establishments, broker facilities, warehouses or vehicles used in the transportation of meat and poultry or products thereof and to all parts of such premises for the purp…

Seizure

Seizure. (a) The Director is hereby authorized to prohibit the entrance into channels of trade of any meat or poultry products found to be unwholesome, improperly labeled or otherwise not in accordance with the provisions of this Act or the rules and regulations established hereunder. Any meat or poultry product found…

Rules and regulations

Rules and regulations. The Director shall adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary for the effective administration of this Act. The Department shall adopt by reference federal regulations promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture governing meat and poultry inspection, unless modified by this Ac…

Licensees shall comply with bulletins, manuals of procedure and guidelines issued by the United States Department of Agriculture which implement the federal Meat Inspection Act and the Federal Poultry Inspection Act. (Source: P.A. 91-170, eff. 1-1-00.)

Appeals

Appeals. Appeals from final administration decisions of the Department may be taken and judicial review had thereof pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Law and all amendments and modifications thereof and rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto. (Source: P.A. 82-783.)

Cooperation with other agencies

Cooperation with other agencies. The Director is hereby authorized to cooperate with all other agencies, Federal, State and municipal, in order to carry out the effective administration of this Act, and to establish a meat and poultry fund in the appropriate State agencies for receipt of cooperative funds from the Fede…

Criminal offenses

Criminal offenses. A. Any person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this Act shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. B. Any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or employee of…

Suspension and revocation of license

Suspension and revocation of license. (a) The Director may suspend a license if the Department has reason to believe that any of the following has occurred: (1) A licensee had made a material misstatement in the application for original license or in the application for any renewal license under this Act; (2) A license…

Administrative hearings and penalties

Administrative hearings and penalties. When an administrative hearing is held, the hearing officer, upon determination of a violation of this Act or rules promulgated under this Act, may assess the following administrative penalties in addition to or instead of a suspension or revocation of the license as provided in S…

Saving Clause

Saving Clause. If any section subsection, clause, provision or portion of this Act shall be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction or the applicability thereof to any person, substance or product is held invalid, such holding shall not affect any other section, subsection, clause,…

Wholesale distribution standard

Wholesale distribution standard. All siluriformes fish or siluriformes fish products entering any official establishment intended for wholesale distribution shall be inspected, handled, stored, prepared, packaged, marked, and labeled as required by 9 CFR 530 through 9 CFR 561, which is hereby incorporated by reference.…