CARCASSES

See also DEAD BODIES

Acceptance into slaughter house or packing plant, Minn. Statutes 2025 31.56

Adulterated carcasses

Condemnation, destruction, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.04

Seizure, condemnation, or embargo, Minn. Statutes 2025 34A.11

Animal Health Board, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82

Animal, poultry, and rabbit slaughtering, see ANIMAL, POULTRY, AND RABBIT SLAUGHTERING

Articles not intended as human food, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.17

Bear baiting, Minn. Statutes 2025 97B.425

Brands, custom slaughtered animals, Minn. Rules 1540.4450

Cleaning and disinfection, carcasses with hide and skin left on, Minn. Rules 1540.1370

Collecting stations, Minn. Rules 1721.0720

Composting, Minn. Rules 1721.0740

Condemnation, unsound, unhealthful, or unwholesome, Minn. Rules 1540.1270, 1540.4510, 1540.4520

Definitions

Animal health, Minn. Rules 1721.0690

Meat inspection, Minn. Rules 1540.0010

Definitions, Meat and Poultry Inspection Act, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.02

Denaturing

Minnesota inspected and condemned carcasses, Minn. Rules 1540.1270, 1540.2140

Unsound, unhealthful, or unwholesome carcasses, Minn. Rules 1540.4510, 1540.4520

Detention of animal or product

Adulterated or misbranded food, Minn. Statutes 2025 34A.11

Meat and poultry inspection law, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.23

Discarded animal parts

Disposal, see same under this topic

Transportation, Minn. Rules 1721.0720

Diseased carcasses, Minn. Rules 1540.1480

Disposal

Animals dead of anthrax, see Animals dead of under ANTHRAX

Anthrax deaths, Minn. Rules 1721.0530

Cats, dogs, and ferrets, exceptions, Minn. Rules 1721.0695

Collecting stations, Minn. Rules 1721.0720

Composting, Minn. Rules 1721.0740

Definitions, Minn. Rules 1721.0690

Diseased carcasses, Minn. Rules 1540.1480

Domestic animals, Minn. Rules 1721.0700

Minnesota inspected and condemned carcasses, Minn. Rules 1540.1270

Off-site pickup points, Minn. Rules 1721.0730

Disposing of on highways, violations and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 169.42, 169.421

Dissection, authorizing, Minn. Statutes 2025 145.161

Dogs, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82, 347.14

Domestic animals, disposition

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82

Unlicensed dogs, payments for, Minn. Statutes 2025 347.14

Establishments

Animal matter processing, see ANIMAL MATTER PROCESSING

Rendering plants, see RENDERING PLANTS

Farmed cervidae, Minn. Rules 1721.0410

Horsemeat, Minn. Statutes 2025 31.621, 31.631, 31A.12

Identification, custom processed carcasses, Minn. Rules 1540.4455, 1540.4460, 1540.4480, 1540.4490

Inspections

Application of rules, Minn. Rules 1540.0020

Articles not intended as human food, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.17

Carcasses for slaughter house or packing plants, Minn. Statutes 2025 31.56

Diseased animals, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.03

Domestic animals, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82

Exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2025 28A.153, 31A.15

Marking, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.04

Prior cleaning, Minn. Rules 1540.1370

Prior to entry into processing establishment, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.05

Reinspection, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.04

Right of entry, Animal Health Board, Minn. Rules 1721.0710

Labels, marks, or tags

Custom slaughtered animals, Minn. Rules 1540.4450

Minnesota inspected and condemned, Minn. Rules 1540.1270

Lawsuits, disposition violations, abatement of public nuisances, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82

Livestock

Disposal, Animal Health Board authority, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.815, 35.82

Sheep, disposition, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82

Transfer, concealment or retention, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.551

Unlawful deposit on public or private land, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.68

Livestock destroyed by wolves, disposition, Minn. Rules 1515.3400

Meat food products, products usable as human food defined as, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.02

Minnesota inspected and condemned carcasses

Conveying to inedible product tanks, Minn. Rules 1540.2060

Defined, Minn. Rules 1540.0010

Denaturing and disposition, Minn. Rules 1540.1270, 1540.2140

Generally, Minn. Rules 1540.1270

Notice requirements, Minn. Rules 1540.2140

Minnesota retained, defined, Minn. Rules 1540.0010

Misbranded carcasses, seizure, condemnation, or embargo, Minn. Statutes 2025 34A.11

Necropsies, anthrax restrictions, Minn. Rules 1721.0530

Permits, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82

Specimens, education purposes, removal, Minn. Rules 1540.2150

Transportation permits, Minn. Rules 1721.0720

Pet food, use as, see PET FOOD

Records and record keeping, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.18

Rendering plants, see RENDERING PLANTS

Research, specimens, use for, Minn. Rules 1540.2160, 1540.2170

Seizure and condemnation, adulterated or misbranded carcasses, Minn. Statutes 2025 34A.11

Specimens

Diseased carcasses, inspection, Minn. Rules 1540.1480

Research and other purposes, removal, Minn. Rules 1540.2150, 1540.2160, 1540.2170

Storage and handling conditions, rulemaking, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.16

Transportation, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82

Transportation, vehicle permits, diseased animals, Minn. Rules 1721.0720

Unslaughtered animals, rulemaking, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.20

Violations and penalties

Adulterated or misbranded carcasses, Minn. Statutes 2025 34A.11

Disposition violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 35.82

Trade in prohibited animal parts, Minn. Statutes 2025 84.0896

Transfer, concealment or retention, criminal penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.551

Unlawful deposit on public or private land, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.68

Wholesalers, registration of business, Minn. Statutes 2025 31A.19