189A.5 - VETERINARIANS AND INSPECTORS.
189A.5 VETERINARIANS AND INSPECTORS.
1. The secretary shall administer this chapter and may appoint a
person to act as the secretary's designee in the administration of
this chapter.
a. The secretary shall employ veterinarians licensed in the
state of Iowa as veterinary inspectors.
b. The secretary is also authorized to employ as meat
inspectors other persons who have qualified and are skilled in the
inspection of meat and poultry products and any other additional
employees the secretary deems necessary to carry out the provisions
of this chapter. The meat inspectors shall be under the supervision
of the secretary's designee or a veterinary inspector if no designee
is appointed.
c. The secretary may also enter into contracts with qualified
individuals to perform inspection services as the secretary may
designate for a fee per head or per unit volume to be determined by
the secretary provided the persons are not employed in an
establishment in which the inspection takes place.
d. The secretary may utilize any employee, agent, or
equipment of the department in the enforcement of this chapter, and
may assign to inspectors other duties related to the acceptance of
meat and poultry products.
2. In order to accomplish the objectives stated in section 189A.3
the secretary shall:
a. By regulations require antemortem and postmortem
inspections, quarantine, segregation, and reinspections with respect
to the slaughter of livestock and poultry and the preparation of
livestock products and poultry products at all establishments in this
state, except those exempted by section 189A.4, at which livestock or
poultry are slaughtered or livestock or poultry products are prepared
for human food solely for distribution in intrastate commerce.
b. By regulations require the identification of livestock and
poultry for inspection purposes and the marking and labeling of
livestock products or poultry products or their containers, or both,
as "Iowa Inspected and Passed" if the products are found upon
inspection to be not adulterated, and as "Iowa Inspected and
Condemned" if they are found upon inspection to be adulterated; and
the destruction for food purposes of all such condemned products
under the supervision of an inspector.
c. Prohibit the entry into official establishments of
livestock products and poultry products not prepared under federal
inspection or inspection pursuant to this chapter and further limit
the entry of such articles and other materials into such
establishments under such conditions as the secretary deems necessary
to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
d. By regulations require that when livestock products and
poultry products leave official establishments they shall bear
directly thereon or on their containers, or both, all information
required by subsection 17 of section 189A.2; and require approval of
all labeling and containers to be used for such products when sold or
transported in intrastate commerce to assure that they comply with
the requirements of this chapter.
e. Investigate the sanitary conditions of each establishment
within paragraph "a" of this subsection and withdraw or otherwise
refuse to provide inspection service at any such establishment where
the sanitary conditions are such as to render adulterated any
livestock products or poultry products prepared or handled thereat.
f. Prescribe regulations relating to sanitation for all
establishments required to have inspection under paragraph "a" of
this subsection.
g. By regulations require that both of the following classes
of persons shall keep such records and for such periods as are
specified in the regulations to fully and correctly disclose all
transactions involved in their business, and to afford the secretary
and the secretary's representatives, including representatives of
other governmental agencies designated by the secretary, access to
such places of business, and opportunity at all reasonable times to
examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy the
records, and to take reasonable samples of the inventory upon payment
of the fair market value therefor:
(1) Any person that engages in or for intrastate commerce in the
business of slaughtering any livestock or poultry, or preparing,
freezing, packaging or labeling, buying or selling, as a broker,
wholesaler, or otherwise, transporting, or storing any livestock
products or poultry products for human or animal food.
(2) Any person that engages in or for intrastate commerce in
business as a renderer or in the business of buying, selling, or
transporting any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or
poultry or parts of the carcasses of any such animals, including
poultry, that died otherwise than by slaughter. Section History: Early Form
[C66, § 170.20, 189A.5, 189A.7, 189A.8, 189A.10; C71, 73, 75, 77,
79, 81, § 189A.5] Section History: Recent Form
87 Acts, ch 144, § 1; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §206
Referred to in § 189A.7, 189A.10