345 IAC 9-1-1 History and scope of rules

Sec. 1. (a) The Indiana Meat and Poultry Inspection and Humane Slaughter Act, Chapter 302, Acts of 1967, was extensively amended by the 1969 Indiana general assembly as Chapter 377, Burns' Annotated Statutes 35-4116–35-4141. The 1969 amendments were introduced in order for the Indiana Act to be uniform with the federal Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 (81 Stat. 584). (b) Section 10 of the Indiana Act states that operations that would be exempt under the provisions of the federal Wholesome Meat Act or the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act are exempt under the Indiana Act. The exemptions under the federal Wholesome Meat Act were not clarified until passage of the Curtis Amendment to the federal Wholesome Meat Act (July 18, 1970, P.L.91-342, 84 Stat. 438). The federal regulations governing meat inspection became effective on December 1, 1970. Completion of the revision for the state of Indiana was withheld until receipt of formal notice that the Indiana meat inspection program had been found to be "equal to" the program of meat inspection as provided by the Meat and Poultry Inspection Program, Consumer and Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Copies of the proposed revision were forwarded to the Indiana Meat Packers Association and the Indiana Locker and Meat Processors Association. (c) Effective July 1, 1996, the Indiana general assembly transferred the Meat and Poultry Inspection; Humane Slaughter Act from IC 16 to IC 15-17-5. Jurisdiction over the meat and poultry inspection program was transferred from the Indiana state department of health to the Indiana state board of animal health at that time. The 1997 rule revision makes substantial use of incorporation of federal rules by reference in order to maintain continuity with the federal program where possible.