The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 6 V.S.A. § 3303)
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§ 3303. Purposes
It is the objective of this chapter to provide for meat and poultry products inspection
programs that will impose and enforce requirements with respect to intrastate operations
and commerce that are at least equal to those imposed and enforced under the Federal
Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act with respect to
operations and transactions in interstate commerce. In addition, it is the further
objective of this chapter to provide for licensing, and periodic review of establishments,
such as retail vendors, custom licensed establishments, and wholesale distributors,
which are not subject to traditional inspection under the Federal Meat Inspection
Act and the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. In this way, the public will
be better protected from uninspected, adulterated, unwholesome, mislabeled, or otherwise
illegal meat and poultry products. The Secretary is directed to administer this chapter
so as to accomplish these purposes. The Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets is
designated as the appropriate State agency to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture
of the United States and to administer this chapter. (Added 1985, No. 226 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 2, 1986; amended 1989, No. 256 (Adj. Sess.), § 10(a), eff. Jan. 1, 1991; 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003.)