P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 771g
The Secretary shall direct that sanitary technicians or other competent inspectors perform those inspections which he may deem necessary of every slaughtering, canning, salting, packing, fat and meat by-products processing establishments or similar establishments where animals are slaughtered and where meat and meat food products are prepared solely for intrastate commerce, with the purpose of being informed of the sanitary conditions thereof and prescribe the sanitary regulations under which said establishments shall be maintained; and when the sanitary conditions of any establishment are such as may cause the adulteration of the meat and of the meat food products, the Secretary shall refuse to permit that said meat or the meat food products be marked, sealed, labeled or identified with a label such as “P.R. Inspected and Approved”.
History —June 28, 1969, No. 120, p. 334, § 8.