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PUBLIC LAW 85-172-AUG. 28, 1957

[71 S T A T,

VIOI^^TIONS BY E X E M P T E D PERSONS

SEC. 16. Any person who sells, delivers, transports or offers for sale or transportation in commerce or in a designated major consuming area any poultry or poultry products which are exempt under section 15, and which are unwholesome or adulterated and are intended for human consumption, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction thereof be subject to the penalties set forth in section 12. IMPORTS

21 USC 30*1*.°'

SEC. 17. (a) No slaughtered poultry, or parts or products thereof, of any kind shall be imported into the United States unless they are healthful, wholesome, fit for human food, not adulterated, and contain no dye, chemical, preservative, or ingredient which renders them unhealthful, unwholesome, adulterated, or unfit for human food and unless they also comply with the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of Agriculture to assure that imported poultry or poultry products comply with the standards provided for in this Act. All imported, slaughtered poultry, or parts or products thereof, shall after entry into the United States in compliance with such rules and regulations be deemed and treated as domestic slaughtered poultry, or parts or products thereof, within the meaning and subject to the provisions of this Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and Acts amendatory of, supplemental to, or in suDstitution for such Acts. (b) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this section and in such rules and regulations the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe the terms and conditions for the destruction of all slaughtered poultry, or parts or products thereof, offered for entry and refused admission into the United States unless such slaughtered poultry, or parts or products thereof, be exported by the consignee within the time fixed therefor in such rules and regulations. (c) All charges for storage, cartage, and labor with respect to any product which is refused admission pursuant to this section shall be paid by the owner or consignee, and in default of such payment shall constitute a lien against any other products imported thereafter by or for such owner or consignee. GENER^VL PROVISIONS

21 USC 301.

SEC. 18. (a) For the purpose of preventing and eliminating burdens on commerce in poultry and poultry products, the jurisdiction of the Secretary within the scope of this Act shall be exclusive and poultry and poultry products shall be exempt from the provisions of the Fedgpai Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, to the extent of the application or the extension thereto of the provisions of this Act. (b) I n carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Secretary may cooperate with other branches of Government and with State agencies and may conduct such examinations, investigations, and inspections as he determines practicable through any officer or employee or a State commissioned by the Secretary for such purpose. COST OF INSPECTION

SEC. 19. The cost of inspection rendered under the requirements of this Act, shall be borne by the United States, except that the cost of overtime and holiday work performed in establishments subject to the provisions of this Act at such rates as the Secretary may determine shall be borne by such establishments. Sums received by the Secre-

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