The provisions of this section shall in no way derogate from authority for condemnation or seizure conferred by other provisions of this chapter, or other laws.
21 U.S.C. § 673
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS1989-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-205 designated first sentence as par. (1) and redesignated cls. (1) to (3) as cls. (A) to (C), respectively, designated second sentence as par. (2) and inserted "(A) to be distributed in accordance with paragraph (5), or (B)" after "entry of the decree,", designated third and fourth sentences as pars. (3) and (4), respectively, and added par. (5).
- Secretary
- The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or his delegate.
- State
- The term "State" means any State of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- United States
- The term "United States" means the States, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of the United States.
- commerce
- The term "commerce" means commerce between any State, any Territory, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or within any Territory not organized with a legislative body, or the District of Columbia.
- meat food product
- The term "meat food product" means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the Secretary under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products. This term as applied to food products of equines shall have a meaning comparable to that provided in this paragraph with respect to cattle, sheep, swine, and goats.
- prepared
- The term "prepared" means slaughtered, canned, salted, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed.