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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62105</law_id><section_number>3.2-5409</section_number><catch_line>Prohibition against intrastate distribution of equine, livestock and poultry products</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 sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or <span class="dictionary">meat food products</span> thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> to show the kinds of animals from which they were derived. <a id="paragraph-226608" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5409/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No person shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any <span class="dictionary">livestock products</span> or <span class="dictionary">poultry products</span> that are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> or are naturally inedible by humans. <a id="paragraph-226609" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5409/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry or the products of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation, is made in accordance with such regulations as the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may prescribe to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes. <a id="paragraph-226610" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5409/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1970, c. 290, &#xA7; 3.1-884.24; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
