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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59871</law_id><section_number>3.2-5403</section_number><catch_line>Department to cooperate with U.S. Department of Agriculture</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>3.2-5404</reference><reference>3.2-5405</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="54">Slaughterhouses, Meat, and Dressed Poultry</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall cooperate with the U.S. <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Agriculture in administration of this chapter to provide for meat and <span class="dictionary">poultry products</span> inspection programs. These programs will impose and enforce requirements with respect to intrastate operations and commerce that are at least equal to those imposed and enforced under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Federal <span class="dictionary">Poultry Products</span> Inspection Act with respect to operations and transactions in interstate commerce; and the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> is directed to administer this chapter so as to accomplish this purpose.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 290, &#xA7; 3.1-884.19; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
