[Derived from Art. X of Ch. XXV of the Charter and Ordinances,
1974]
A.
The Health Commissioner shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed
for that purpose an examination on the hoof of all cattle, sheep,
swine and goats intended to be slaughtered, within the City of Buffalo,
New York, for human consumption. Said inspectors shall mark or tag
as inspected and condemned all animals found to be unsound, unhealthful
or otherwise unfit for human food and shall cause to be destroyed
for food purposes and personally superintend the destruction of all
animals found to be unsound, unhealthful or otherwise unfit for human
food. Said inspectors shall mark or tag in such manner as will permit
no deception or substitution as inspected and suspected all animals
which show what appear to be symptoms or evidences of a disease or
condition rendering the same unfit for human food. If the inspector
is in doubt as to the existence of such disease or condition, he shall
cause such animals to be removed to a slaughterhouse to be designated
for such purpose by the Health Commissioner, and such animals shall
be slaughtered separately from all other cattle, sheep, swine or goats,
and when so slaughtered, the carcasses thereof shall be subject to
a careful postmortem examination as provided by the Code of the City
of Buffalo.
B.
No person shall slaughter within the City of Buffalo any cattle,
sheep, swine or goats intended for human consumption until the same
shall have been inspected on the hoof by an inspector appointed for
that purpose. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the
slaughter of an animal within the City of Buffalo intended for consumption
by the person slaughtering the same or by the members of his family
residing with him.
The Health Commissioner shall cause to be made by inspectors
appointed for that purpose a postmortem examination of all cattle,
sheep, swine or goats slaughtered within the City of Buffalo, New
York, for human consumption, and the carcasses of all said animals
found to be sound, healthful and fit for human food shall be marked
or tagged as inspected and passed, which mark or tag shall show on
its face the date of the inspection. Said inspectors shall mark or
tag as inspected and condemned all carcasses and parts of carcasses
of animals found to be unsound, unhealthful or otherwise unfit for
human food and shall cause to be destroyed for food purposes and personally
superintend the destruction of all carcasses or parts of carcasses
of animals found to be unsound, unhealthful or otherwise unfit for
human food. Said inspectors, after said first inspection, shall, when
they deem it necessary, reinspect said carcasses or parts of carcasses
or the food products thereof to determine whether, since the first
inspection, the same has become unsound, unwholesome or in any way
unfit for human food. If any carcass or any part thereof or any food
product made therefrom shall, upon examination and inspection, be
found to have become unsound, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human
food, said inspectors shall cause the same to be destroyed for food
purposes and personally superintend the destruction of the same notwithstanding
said first inspection.
The Health Commissioner shall cause to be made by inspectors
appointed by him for that purpose an inspection and examination of
all meat food products prepared in any slaughtering, canning, salting,
packing, cutting, grinding, rendering or similar establishment within
the City of Buffalo, and for the purpose of such examination and inspection,
said inspectors shall have access to every part of said establishment.
Said inspectors shall mark or tag as inspected and passed all such
products as upon inspection are found to be pure, sound, wholesome
and made up of healthful ingredients and fit for human food, which
mark or tag shall show on its face the date of such inspection. Said
inspectors shall mark or tag as inspected and condemn all such products
as upon inspection are found to be impure, unsound, unhealthful or
otherwise unfit for human food and shall cause to be destroyed for
food purposes and personally superintend such destruction of all food
products which, upon examination and inspection, are found to be impure,
unsound, unhealthful or otherwise unfit for human food.
A.
No meat or meat products from any animal slaughtered outside the
City of Buffalo shall be brought into the City or offered for sale
for human consumption unless such animal is slaughtered in a building
inspected and approved by federal authority or by governmental authority
of a state or municipality which maintains a standard of postmortem
inspection as high as that required by the City of Buffalo. Such meat
brought into the City shall be properly stamped or tagged showing
such official inspection.
B.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to canned or tinned
meats prepared outside the City of Buffalo nor to poultry.
C.
It shall be the duty of the Department of Health to enforce the provisions
of this section and, for such purpose, to cause, from time to time,
inspections to be made of meat brought into the City. Upon inspection,
any such meat found not properly stamped or tagged and any meat which
is found to be unfit for human consumption, whether labeled or not,
shall be destroyed.
No cattle, sheep, swine or goats or meat or meat products thereof,
except tinned or canned meats, which have not been inspected and marked
as inspected and passed, in accordance with the provisions of the
Code of the City of Buffalo, shall be sold or offered for sale or
in any manner disposed of for human consumption within the City of
Buffalo, New York; and no tinned or canned meat products which have
not been inspected and marked as inspected and passed, in accordance
with the provisions of the Code of the City of Buffalo or in accordance
with the provisions of the act of Congress relating to the federal
inspection of meat and meat products intended for interstate commerce
or in accordance with the laws of a state or the ordinances of a municipal
division thereof which maintains a system of postmortem inspection
and marking of the standard maintained by the City of Buffalo, shall
be sold or offered for sale or in any manner disposed of for human
consumption within the City of Buffalo, New York.
