                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROHIBITION AGAINST INTRASTATE DISTRIBUTION OF EQUINE, LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
PRODUCTS (§ 3.2-5409)

A. 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 meat food products
thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or
otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the Board to show
the kinds of animals from which they were derived.

B. No person shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any livestock products or
poultry products that are not intended for use as human food unless they are
denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the Board or
are naturally inedible by humans.

C. 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 Board may prescribe to assure that such
animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from
being used for human food purposes.

HISTORY: 1970, c. 290, § 3.1-884.24; 2008, c. 860.