Tex. Health and Safety Code § 433.024
INSPECTION OF PROCESSING AND SLAUGHTERING ESTABLISHMENTS
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- Tex. Health and Safety Code § 433.024, INSPECTION OF PROCESSING AND SLAUGHTERING ESTABLISHMENTS, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/673167
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(a) The department shall inspect each processing establishment in which livestock is slaughtered and meat and meat food products of the livestock are prepared solely for intrastate commerce as necessary to obtain information about the establishment's sanitary conditions.
(b) The department shall inspect each slaughtering establishment whose primary business is the selling of livestock to be slaughtered by the purchaser on premises owned or operated by the seller. This subsection does not nullify the provisions in Section 433.006 relating to exemptions or Section 433.0065 relating to an animal share exemption.
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules governing sanitation maintenance in processing and slaughtering establishments as defined by this section.
(d) If sanitary conditions of a processing establishment render meat or meat food products adulterated, the department shall prohibit the meat or meat food products from being labeled, marked, stamped, or tagged as "Texas inspected and passed."