HB0704 - Tennessee - Agriculture, Dept. Of, Meat, Meat Products

Companion Bill SB1006. Meat, Meat Products - Makes processing of deer meat and carcasses subject to provisions of "Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act.” - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 7. Fiscal Summary for *HB0704 / SB1006Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase State Revenues - $1,400 Bill Summary for *HB0704 / SB1006 This bill requires persons who process deer meat for profit to comply with the same licensure, sanitation, and inspection requirements as persons who process livestock and poultry under present law. This bill removes a provision of present law that requires the department of agriculture to establish and enforce standards and procedures to reasonably ensure the safe and sanitary handling, inspection, processing, labeling, storage, distribution, and consumption of deer meat lawfully harvested [...]

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