Sec. 13. That this Act shall be in force and effect from and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and seven.
Approved, June 30, 1906.
APPENDIX C.
[B. A. I. Order No. 137.]
REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MEAT INSPECTION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
SCOPE OF INSPECTION.
Regulation 1.
All slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, salting, rendering, or similar establishments whose meats or meat food products, in whole or in part, enter into interstate or foreign commerce shall have inspection under these regulations unless exempted from inspection by the Secretary of Agriculture. Only farmers, and retail butchers or retail dealers supplying their customers, may be exempted under the law, but they are, nevertheless, subject to the provision of the law which places a penalty upon any person who shall sell or offer for sale or transportation, for interstate or foreign commerce, any meat or meat food products which are diseased, unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, knowing that such meat food products are intended for human consumption.
All carcasses and parts of carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, and all meats and meat food products thereof entering into interstate or foreign commerce shall show either that they have been inspected and passed or that they have been exempted from inspection under these regulations. All meats and meat food products on hand October 1, 1906, at establishments where inspection has not been previously maintained, or which have been inspected under previously existing law and regulations, shall be examined and labeled under these regulations before being allowed to enter into interstate or foreign commerce.