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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81014</law_id><section_number>3.2-5407</section_number><catch_line>Prohibitions in general</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="2">Inspection, Slaughter, and Official Marks</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No person shall, with respect to any livestock or poultry or any <span class="dictionary">livestock products</span> or <span class="dictionary">poultry products</span>: <a id="paragraph-290399" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5407/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Slaughter any such animals or prepare any such articles that are capable of use as human food, at any establishment preparing such articles solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter; <a id="paragraph-290400" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5407/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any such articles that: (i) are capable of use as human food, and (ii) are adulterated or misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or receipt for transportation; or any articles required to be inspected under this chapter unless they have been so inspected and passed; or <a id="paragraph-290401" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5407/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Perform any act, with respect to any articles that are capable of use as human food, while they are being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transportation, that is intended to cause or has the effect of causing such articles to be adulterated or misbranded. <a id="paragraph-290402" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5407/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, or from an <span class="dictionary">official establishment</span>, any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>. <a id="paragraph-290403" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5407/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> No person shall violate any provision of the regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> under subdivisions 7, 8, 9, or 10 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Duties of the Board" href="/3.2-5404/">3.2-5404</a> or <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> under subdivisions A 3 and A 4 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Powers of Commissioner" href="/3.2-5405/">3.2-5405</a>. <a id="paragraph-290404" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5407/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1970, c. 290, &#xA7; 3.1-884.22; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
