No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled or diseased animals, or their meat, if they have died otherwise than by slaughter in an authorized slaughterhouse, shall carry out said transaction, unless such transaction is made in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that such animals, or their unwholesome meat, parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
History —June 28, 1969, No. 120, p. 334, § 204.