Animals, Poultry, or Products Thereof Suspected of Bearing Substance Causing Contamination - Destruction; Compliance With Federal Tolerances

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics
4. Standards, Labeling, and Adulteration of Food
5. Animals Suspected of Bearing Any Residue Causing Contaminated Meat
6. Animals, Poultry, or Products Thereof Suspected of Bearing Substance Causing Contamination - Destruction; Compliance With Federal Tolerances

If animals, poultry, or animal and poultry products quarantined or detained contain such contaminating residue that remains in excess of a safe level for human consumption, the Commissioner is authorized to order the animals, poultry, or animal and poultry products to be destroyed in a manner prescribed for the particular contaminating residue. Tolerances established by the United States Food and Drug Administration shall be complied with in enforcing this and other Code sections of this article.

(Ga. L. 1976, p. 335, § 4.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Food, § 58.

C.J.S.

- 36A C.J.S., Food, § 23.

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