2007 Minnesota Statutes

31A.13 INSPECTORS.
The commissioner shall appoint inspectors to inspect animals, whole or parts of carcasses,
poultry, poultry food products, meat, and meat food products the inspection of which is provided
for by law, and the sanitary conditions of all establishments in which the poultry, poultry food
products, meat, and meat food products are prepared. Inspectors shall refuse to stamp, mark,
tag, or label a whole or part of a carcass or a meat food product derived from it, prepared in
an establishment covered by sections 31A.01 to 31A.12, until it has actually been inspected
and found to be not adulterated. Inspectors shall perform other duties required by this chapter
or by rules adopted by the commissioner that are necessary for the efficient execution of this
chapter. Inspections under this chapter must conform to the rules adopted by the commissioner
consistent with this chapter.
History: 1969 c 225 s 13; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1; 2000 c 477 s 47