The Secretary shall periodically appoint inspectors to carry out examinations and inspections of every animal, meat or meat food products, subject to inspection under this chapter, as well as of the sanitary conditions of every establishment where said meat and food products are prepared. Said inspectors shall refuse to seal, mark, identify with tags or labels all meat or meat food products, until they have really been inspected and found not adulterated; and they shall discharge those other duties as provided by this chapter and the regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary. The Secretary shall periodically promulgate the necessary regulations for the efficient execution of the provisions of this chapter, and all examinations and inspections to be made shall be done in the manner prescribed by said regulations and in a manner not to be incompatible with the provisions of this chapter.
History —June 28, 1969, No. 120, p. 334, § 14.