California · Food and Agricultural Code - FAC

FAC §18844: It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, or from an official establishment, any slaughtered poultry fr

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

It is unlawful to sell, transport, or receive slaughtered poultry in intrastate commerce unless blood, feathers, feet, head, and viscera have been removed per regulations.

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It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, or from an official establishment, any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in accordance with this chapter and regulations promulgated under this chapter.

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