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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 762 By: Bullard
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to intrastate meat processors;
amending Section 1, Chapter 82, O.S.L. 2020 (2 O.S.
Supp. 2020, Section 6 -182.1), which relates to
intrastate meat processors; modifying language;
defining terms; requiring inspections; providing for
payment of technologies and costs; setting
requirements for on-site inspectors; allowing
cooperative agreements for certain purpose; stating
qualification for inspectors; stating remote
inspection criteria; requiring time stamp on remote
viewing technology; stating viewing criteria for
remote inspections; setting standards for slaughter,
carcass processing and butchering; requiring
temperature readings; providing for labels;
authorizing intrastate processing of por k and chicken
by rule; providing an effective date; and declaring
an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY Section 1, Chapter 82, O.S.L. 2020
(2 O.S. Supp. 2020, Section 6-182.1), is amended to read as follows:
Section 6-182.1. A. Upon approval by the United States
Department of Agriculture, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,
Food, and Forestry may establish standards for Oklah oma producers
that market and sell beef and bison in intrast ate commerce.
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B. The Department is authorized to promulgate rules regarding
slaughter facilities that to implement the provisions of this
section and provide for the following:
1. Establish standards Standards that allow for flexibility in
beef and bison inspection, including, but not limited to,
establishing the minimum number of inspectors at a facility and the
use;
2. Standards for the use of technologies to digitally remotely
inspect meat;
2. 3. Establish standards Standards for the labeling of beef
and bison products sold in intrastate commerce;
3. 4. Establish standards Standards for the number of head of
cattle and bison over which processed in a facility that shall
require the facility to pay for a state on-site inspector; and
4. 5. Establish any Any other standards necessary to increase
the ability of producers to market and sell beef and bison in
intrastate commerce.
C. Any rules promulgated pur suant to this section shall ensure
that food safety will not be compromised in any way and will ensure
that consumers are protected.
D. For purposes of this section:
1. “Intrastate commerce” means business that is transacted only
within the jurisdictional boundarie s of this state;
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2. “Intrastate processor ” means a slaughter facility that
produces meat food products or meat by -products from cattle or bison
for wholesale or retail sales in intrastate commerce i n this state
and whose calendar year production is ten thousand head of cattle or
bison or less. Such term includes a mobile slaughter facilit y that
processes cattle or bison for intrastate commerce in this state; and
3. “Technologies” means the use of one or more systems,
cameras, computers, recording devices, projectors, videos, satellite
devices or other electronic, fiber-optic or digital means to
actually view, check and inspect meat and meat processes from a
remote location in real time.
E. All intrastate processors shall have a Department inspector,
a contract Department-certified inspector or shall operate with
remote technologies that allow inspection during the slaughter,
processing and butchering of cattle or bison. The cost of
technologies and inspections shall be paid by the meat processor.
Processing facilities that process more th an ten thousand head of
cattle or bison in a calendar y ear shall be required to have and pay
for on-site inspectors certified by the Department.
F. Cooperative agreemen ts may be facilitated by counties,
municipalities, extension services, intrastate processors and/or
livestock producers to pay the costs of retaining contract
Department-certified inspectors.
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G. 1. Persons who provide inspections for intrastate
processors remotely or on-site for the Department and person s
certified by the Department to provide contract inspections for
intrastate processors sha ll:
a. possess the necessary qualifications required of the
United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety
and Inspection Service for meat inspectors,
b. have ten (10) or more years of experience in meat
processing and possess certification by a relevant
food safety course provided by the Oklahoma Department
of Career and Technology Education or an accredited
university, or
c. possess a bachelor’s degree in animal science or other
related field approved by the Department and possess
the American Meat Science Associat ion Meat Evaluation
Certification or complete the twenty-day Basic
Livestock Slaughter Inspection Training Course of the
United States Department of A griculture Food Safety
and Inspection or other relevant training
certification approved by the Department .
2. Persons who meet the qualifications provided in paragraph 1
of this subsection shall be certified by the Department to contract
with intrastate processors and conduct on-site inspections or remote
inspections.
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H. 1. Intrastate processers who utiliz e remote inspectors
shall provide uninterrupted technolog ies at the facility that allow
for live-feed actual viewing of the cattle and bison from their
entry at the facility to the end of processing , except while the
carcass is placed in cold storage . Technologies utilized must
provide an accurate time stamp with live-feed remote viewing and
filming for the entirety of the process.
2. Before slaughter, live-feed remote viewing of the cattle and
bison shall be high resolution and with enough lighting to show any
discoloration, spots on the hide or any other known markers
routinely used by on-site certified inspectors to identify illness
or injury and to show the ability of the animal to walk under its
own power without assistance .
3. Live-feed remote viewing angles and resolution of the
technologies must provide close actual viewing of the hooves, mouth,
nose, eyes, udders, hair and hide, and the whole o f the body in a
manner sufficient to allow the remote inspe ctor to determine a
potential illness or injury. The technologies may allow the remote
inspector the ability to adjust the viewing angle or enhan ce the
resolution and/or view of the animal.
4. Slaughter of the animal must be live-feed viewing in a
manner sufficient to allow the remote inspector to determine whether
the process was conducted in compliance with humane slaughter
regulations.
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5. Processing of the carcass during suspension, exsanguina tion,
hide removal, splitting and evisceration must allow remote viewing
of the entire process and viewing angles that may show multiple
carcasses or processing operations ; provided, the overall remote
viewing is sufficient to allow the remote inspector to determine
compliance with regulations .
6. Butchering process of the carcass must allow remote viewing
of the entire butchering process and viewing from angles that may
show multiple carcasses or butcheri ng and processing operations;
provided, overall remote viewing is sufficient to allow the remote
inspector to determine compliance with reg ulations.
7. Intrastate processors shall utilize technologies that provide
the remote inspectors with temperature readings of the carcass,
processing rooms and cold storage as required by regulations.
Temperature readings shall be accompanied wit h an accurate time of
measurement that is synchronized with the required live-feed
viewing.
I. 1. All packaging of meat food products or meat by-products
produced by intrastate processors shall have an attached label
prominently displayed that states: “Inspected by ODAFF only for sale
in Oklahoma.” Labels shall include batch number s that are provided
to the Department.
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2. Intrastate processors may place a brand label on the pa ckage
that is agreed upon by the i ntrastate processor and the l ivestock
producer that provide d the cattle or bison.
J. In addition to intrastate processing of beef and bison as
provided in this section, the Department is authorized to promulgate
rules to allow the intrastate processing of pork and chicken in a
manner substantially similar to the provisions of this section
including use of technologies, remote inspections, contract
Department certified inspectors and on-site Department inspectors,
and the number of on-site inspectors required for processing certain
numbers of animals and fowl at a facility.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2021.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, healt h or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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