ORS 603.085: Rulemaking authority.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
In accordance with the provisions of ORS chapter 183 the State Department of Agriculture may promulgate rules necessary to carry out and enforce ORS 599.205 and this chapter, including but not limited to: (1) The methods of marking or tagging packages required by ORS 603.045 (2). (2) The establishment of minimum standards of construction of establishments and equipment and of maintenance and sanitation of such establishments and equipment. (3) The establishment of the major phases of processing and forms of the certificates and tags required by ORS 603.045 (3) and (4). [1973 c.175 §9; 1981 c.248 §28]
Administrative rules citing this section
- OAR 603-028-0005: Definitions — implements
- OAR 603-028-0100: Buildings — implements
- OAR 603-028-0300: Packaging — implements
- OAR 603-028-0405: Additives — implements
- OAR 603-028-0500: Prohibited Acts — implements
- OAR 603-028-0600: Definitions — implements
- OAR 603-028-0605: Sanitation, Maintenance, and Construction by Licensees — implements
- OAR 603-028-0615: Federal Inspection — implements
- OAR 603-028-0700: Labeling by Custom Slaughtering Establishments — implements
- OAR 603-028-0710: Definitions — implements
- OAR 603-028-0715: Licensing Exemptions — implements
- OAR 603-028-0725: Sanitation Standards — implements
- OAR 603-028-0735: Sanitation Standards — implements
- OAR 603-028-0740: Records and Enforcement — implements
- OAR 603-028-0810: Conditions of Transportation and Slaughter — implements
- OAR 603-028-0825: Construction and Equipment — implements
- OAR 603-028-0845: Definitions — implements
- OAR 603-028-0850: Licensing Requirements for Game Meat Processing — implements
- OAR 603-028-0855: Labeling Requirements for Game Meat — implements
- OAR 603-028-0860: Game Meat Inspection Procedures — implements
- OAR 603-028-0865: Game Meat Inspection Reports — implements
- OAR 603-029-0010: Definitions — implements
- OAR 603-029-0010: Definitions — authority
- OAR 603-029-0015: Scope — implements
- OAR 603-029-0015: Scope — authority
- OAR 603-029-0020: Exemptions — implements
- OAR 603-029-0020: Exemptions — authority
- OAR 603-029-0100: Application for Inspection — implements
- OAR 603-029-0100: Application for Inspection — authority
- OAR 603-029-0105: Information to be Furnished; Grant or Refusal of Inspection — implements
- OAR 603-029-0105: Information to be Furnished; Grant or Refusal of Inspection — authority
- OAR 603-029-0110: Conditions for Receiving Inspection — implements
- OAR 603-029-0110: Conditions for Receiving Inspection — authority
- OAR 603-029-0115: Refusal to Grant Inspection — implements
- OAR 603-029-0115: Refusal to Grant Inspection — authority
- OAR 603-029-0140: Official Numbers; Subsidiaries and Tenants — implements
- OAR 603-029-0140: Official Numbers; Subsidiaries and Tenants — authority
- OAR 603-029-0145: Separation of State-Inspected Establishments — implements
- OAR 603-029-0145: Separation of State-Inspected Establishments — authority
- OAR 603-029-0150: Sanitation and Adequate Facilities — implements
- OAR 603-029-0150: Sanitation and Adequate Facilities — authority
- OAR 603-029-0155: Inauguration of Inspection — implements
- OAR 603-029-0155: Inauguration of Inspection — authority
- OAR 603-029-0200: Facilities for Department Employees — authority
- OAR 603-029-0205: Other Facilities and Conditions to be Provided by the State-Inspected Establishment — authority
- OAR 603-029-0215: Inspectors to Maintain Sanitary Conditions — authority
- OAR 603-029-0225: Overtime Charges and Holiday Inspection Service — authority
- OAR 603-029-0230: Schedule of Operations — authority
- OAR 603-029-0300: Ante-Mortem Inspection — authority
- OAR 603-029-0305: Ante-Mortem Inspection on Premises of State-Inspected Establishments — authority
- OAR 603-029-0310: Meat Animals Suspected of Being Diseased or Affected with Certain Conditions; Identifying Suspects; Disposition on Post-Mortem Inspection or Otherwise — authority
- OAR 603-029-0315: Dead, Dying, Disabled, or Diseased and Similar Meat Animals — authority
- OAR 603-029-0320: Meat Animals Showing Symptoms of Certain Metabolic, Toxic, Nervous, or Circulatory Disturbances, Nutritional Imbalances, or Infectious or Parasitic Diseases — authority
- OAR 603-029-0325: Swine; Disposal Because of Hog Cholera — authority
- OAR 603-029-0330: Epithelioma of the Eye — authority
- OAR 603-029-0335: Meat Animals Affected with Anthrax; Cleaning and Disinfection of Infected Meat Animal Pens and Driveways — authority
- OAR 603-029-0340: Cattle Affected with Anasarca and Generalized Edema — authority
- OAR 603-029-0345: Swine Erysipelas — authority
- OAR 603-029-0350: Onset of Parturition — authority
- OAR 603-029-0355: Vaccine Meat Animals — authority
- OAR 603-029-0360: Emergency Slaughter; Inspection Prior to — authority
- OAR 603-029-0365: Disposition of Condemned Meat Animals — authority
- OAR 603-029-0370: Brucellosis-reactor Goats — authority
- OAR 603-029-0375: Vesicular Diseases — authority
- OAR 603-029-0380: Meat Animals Suspected of Having Biological Residues — authority
- OAR 603-029-0385: Meat Animals Used for Research — authority
- OAR 603-029-0390: Official Marks and Devices for Purposes of Ante-Mortem Inspection — authority
- OAR 603-029-0401: Extent and Time of Post-Mortem Inspection; Post-Mortem Inspection Staffing Standards — authority
- OAR 603-029-0405: Identification of Carcass with Certain Severed Parts Thereof and with Animal from Which Derived — authority
- OAR 603-029-0410: Carcasses and Parts in Certain Instances to be Retained — authority
- OAR 603-029-0415: Identification of Carcasses and Parts; Tagging — authority
- OAR 603-029-0420: Condemned Carcasses and Parts to be so Marked; Tanking; Separation — authority
- OAR 603-029-0425: Carcasses and Parts Passed for Cooking; Marking — authority
- OAR 603-029-0430: Removal of Spermatic Cords, Pizzles and Preputial Diverticuli — authority
- OAR 603-029-0435: Passing and Marking of Carcasses and Parts — authority
- OAR 603-029-0440: Anthrax; Carcasses not to be Eviscerated; Disposition of Affected Carcasses; Hides, Hoofs, Horns, Hair, Viscera and Contents, and Fat; Handling of Blood And Scalding Vat Water; General Cleanup and Disinfection — authority
- OAR 603-029-0445: Carcasses with Skin or Hide on; Cleaning Before Evisceration; Removal of Larvae of Hypodermae, External Parasites and Other Pathological Skin Conditions — authority
- OAR 603-029-0450: Sternum to be Split; Abdominal and Thoracic Viscera to be Removed — authority
- OAR 603-029-0455: Inflating Carcasses or Parts Thereof; Transferring Caul or Other Fat — authority
- OAR 603-029-0460: Handling of Bruised Parts — authority
- OAR 603-029-0465: Disposition of Thyroid Glands and Laryngeal Muscle Tissue — authority
- OAR 603-029-0470: Disposition of Lungs — authority
- OAR 603-029-0475: Inspection of Mammary Glands — authority
- OAR 603-029-0480: Contamination of Carcasses, Organs, or Other Parts — authority
- OAR 603-029-0485: Inspection of Kidneys — authority
- OAR 603-029-0490: Saving of Blood from Meat Animals as an Edible Product — authority
- OAR 603-029-0492: Carcasses Suspected of Containing Sulfa and Antibiotic Residues; Sampling Frequency; Disposition of Affected Carcasses and Parts — authority
- OAR 603-029-0494: Specified Risk Materials from Cattle and Their Handling and Disposition — authority
- OAR 603-029-0496: Identification of Carcasses and Parts of Swine — authority
- OAR 603-029-0498: Contamination with Microorganisms; Process Control Verification Criteria and Testing; Pathogen Reduction Standards — authority
- OAR 603-029-0500: Disposal of Diseased or Otherwise Adulterated Carcasses and Parts; General — authority
- OAR 603-029-0502: Tuberculosis — authority
- OAR 603-029-0504: Hog Cholera — authority
- OAR 603-029-0507: Swine Erysipelas — authority
- OAR 603-029-0508: Diamond-Skin Disease — authority
- OAR 603-029-0510: Arthritis — authority
- OAR 603-029-0512: Cattle Carcasses Affected with Anasarca or Generalized Edema — authority
- OAR 603-029-0514: Actinomycosis and Actinobacillosis — authority
- OAR 603-029-0516: Anaplasmosis, Anthrax, Babesiosis, Bacillary Hemoglobinuria (Cattle), Blackleg, Bluetongue, Hemorrhagic Septicemia, Icterohematuria (Sheep), Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis, Leptospirosis, Malignant Epizootic Catarrh, Strangles, Purpura Hemorrhagica, Azoturia, Infectious Equine Encephalomyelitis, Toxic Encephalomyelitis, Infectious Anemia, Dourine, Acute Influenza, Generalized Osteoporosis, Glanders, Acute Inflammatory Lameness, Extensive Fistula, Unhealed Vaccine Lesions — authority
- OAR 603-029-0518: Neoplasms — authority
- OAR 603-029-0520: Epithelioma of the Eye — authority
- OAR 603-029-0522: Pigmentary Conditions; Melanosis, Xanthosis, Ochronosis, etc — authority
- OAR 603-029-0524: Abrasions, Bruises, Abscesses, Pus, etc. — authority
- OAR 603-029-0526: Brucellosis — authority
- OAR 603-029-0528: Carcasses so Infected that Consumption of the Meat may Cause Food Poisoning — authority
- OAR 603-029-0530: Necrobacillosis, Pyemia, and Septicemia — authority
- OAR 603-029-0532: Caseous Lymphadenitis — authority
- OAR 603-029-0534: Icterus — authority
- OAR 603-029-0536: Sexual Odor of Swine — authority
- OAR 603-029-0538: Mange or Scab — authority
- OAR 603-029-0540: Hogs Affected with Urticaria, Tinea Tonsurans, Demodex Follicurlorum, or Erythema — authority
- OAR 603-029-0542: Tapeworm Cysts (Cysticercus Bovis) in Cattle — authority
- OAR 603-029-0544: Hogs Affected with Tapeworm Cysts — authority
- OAR 603-029-0546: Parasites not Transmissible to Man; Tapeworm Cysts in Sheep; Hydatid Cysts; Flukes; Gid Bladder-Worms. — authority
- OAR 603-029-0548: Emaciation — authority
- OAR 603-029-0550: Injured Meat Animals Slaughtered at Unusual Hours — authority
- OAR 603-029-0552: Carcasses of Young Calves, Pigs, Kids, Lambs, and Foals — authority
- OAR 603-029-0554: Unborn and Stillborn Meat Animals — authority
- OAR 603-029-0556: Meat Animals Suffocated and Hogs Scalded Alive — authority
- OAR 603-029-0558: Livers Affected with Carotenosis; Livers Designated as “Telangiectatic,” “Sawdust,” Or “Spotted” — authority
- OAR 603-029-0560: Vesicular Diseases — authority
- OAR 603-029-0562: Listeriosis — authority
- OAR 603-029-0564: Anemia — authority
- OAR 603-029-0566: Muscular Inflammation, Degeneration, or Infiltration — authority
- OAR 603-029-0568: Coccidioidal Granuloma — authority
- OAR 603-029-0570: Odors, Foreign and Urine — authority
- OAR 603-029-0572: Meat and Meat Byproducts from Meat Animals Which Have Been Exposed to Radiation — authority
- OAR 603-029-0574: Biological Residues — authority
- OAR 603-029-0600: General — authority
- OAR 603-029-0610: Oregon Marks and Devices to Identify Inspected and Passed Products of Cattle, Sheep, Swine, or Goats. — authority
- OAR 603-029-0615: Oregon Ante-Mortem Inspection Marks and Devices — authority
- OAR 603-029-0620: Oregon Marks and Devices in Connection with Post-Mortem Inspection and Identification of Adulterated Products and Insanitary Equipment and Facilities — authority
- OAR 603-029-0625: Official Seals for Transportation of Products — authority
- OAR 603-029-0700: Meat Animal Pens, Driveways and Ramps — authority
- OAR 603-029-0705: Handling of Meat Animals — authority
- OAR 603-029-0710: Chemical; Carbon Dioxide — authority
- OAR 603-029-0715: Mechanical; Captive Bolt — authority
- OAR 603-029-0720: Mechanical; Gunshot — authority
- OAR 603-029-0725: Electrical; Stunning or Slaughtering with Electric Current — authority
- OAR 603-029-0728: Ritual Slaughter Practices and Exemption — authority
- OAR 603-029-0730: Tagging of Equipment, Alleyways, Pens, or Compartments to Prevent Inhumane Slaughter or Handling in Connection with Slaughter — authority
- OAR 603-029-0800: Disposition of Condemned Products at State-Inspected Establishments Having Tanking Facilities; Sealing of Tanks. — authority
- OAR 603-029-0805: Tanking and Other Facilities for Inedible Products to be Separate from Edible Product Facilities. — authority
- OAR 603-029-0810: Disposition of Condemned Products at State-Inspected Establishments Having no Tanking Facilities — authority
- OAR 603-029-0815: Suppression of Odors in Preparing Inedible Products — authority
- OAR 603-029-0820: Inedible Rendered Fats Prepared at State-Inspected Establishments — authority
- OAR 603-029-0825: Inedible Fats from Outside State-Inspected Establishments — authority
- OAR 603-029-0830: Carcasses of Meat Animals Condemned on Ante-Mortem Inspection not to Pass Through Edible Meat Product Areas — authority
- OAR 603-029-0835: Dead Meat Animal Carcasses — authority
- OAR 603-029-0840: Specimens for Educational, Research, and Other Nonfood Purposes; Permits for, Required — authority
- OAR 603-029-0845: Livers Condemned Because of Parasitic Infestation and for Other Causes; Conditions for Disposal for Purposes Other than Human Food — authority
- OAR 603-029-0850: Handling of Certain Condemned Products for Purposes Other than Human Food — authority
- OAR 603-029-0880: Carcasses and Parts Passed for Cooking; Rendering into Lard or Tallow — authority
- OAR 603-029-0885: Carcasses and Parts Passed for Cooking; Utilization for Food Purposes after Cooking — authority
- OAR 603-029-0890: Disposal of Products Passed for Cooking if not Handled According to this Part — authority
- OAR 603-029-0900: Authorization Required to Make Devices Bearing Oregon Marks — authority
- OAR 603-029-0905: Approval Required for Oregon Marks — authority
- OAR 603-029-0910: Use of Oregon Marks Prohibited Except Under Supervision of a Department Employee; Removal of Oregon Marks, when Required — authority
- OAR 603-029-0915: Marking Devices; to be Furnished by State-Inspected Establishments; Control of — authority
- OAR 603-029-0920: Branding Ink; to be Furnished by State-Inspected Establishments; Approval by Department; Color — authority
- OAR 603-029-0925: Products not to be Removed from State-Inspected Establishments Unless Marked in Accordance with the Regulations — authority
- OAR 603-029-0930: Marking Devices not to be False or Misleading; Style and Size of Lettering; Approval Required — authority
- OAR 603-029-0935: Unmarked Inspected Products; Moved Between State-Inspected Establishments; Moved in Commerce — authority
- OAR 603-029-0940: Products to be Marked with Oregon Marks — authority
- OAR 603-029-0945: Marking of Meat Products with Oregon Inspection Legend and Ingredient Statement — authority
- OAR 603-029-0950: Special Markings for Certain Meat Products — authority
- OAR 603-029-0955: Marking of Outside Containers — authority
- OAR 603-029-0960: Marking Tank Cars and Tank Trucks Used in Transportation of Edible Products — authority
- OAR 603-029-0965: Marking Outside Containers of Inedible Grease, etc. — authority
- OAR 603-029-0970: Custom Prepared Products to be Marked — authority
- OAR 603-029-1002: Labels Required; Supervision by Department Employee — implements
- OAR 603-029-1002: Labels Required; Supervision by Department Employee — authority
- OAR 603-029-1004: Labels: Definition; Required Features — implements
- OAR 603-029-1004: Labels: Definition; Required Features — authority
- OAR 603-029-1006: Approval of Abbreviations of Marks of Inspection; Preparation of Marking Devices Bearing Inspection Legend Without Advance Approval Prohibited; Exception — implements
- OAR 603-029-1006: Approval of Abbreviations of Marks of Inspection; Preparation of Marking Devices Bearing Inspection Legend Without Advance Approval Prohibited; Exception — authority
- OAR 603-029-1008: Approved Labels to be Used Only on Products to Which they are Applicable — implements
- OAR 603-029-1008: Approved Labels to be Used Only on Products to Which they are Applicable — authority
- OAR 603-029-1010: False or Misleading Labeling or Practices Generally; Specific Prohibitions and Requirements for Labels and Containers — implements
- OAR 603-029-1010: False or Misleading Labeling or Practices Generally; Specific Prohibitions and Requirements for Labels and Containers — authority
- OAR 603-029-1012: Reuse of Oregon Inspection Marks; Reuse of Containers Bearing Oregon Marks, Labels, etc. — authority
- OAR 603-029-1014: Labeling, Filling of Containers, Handling of Labeled Products to be Only in Compliance with Regulations — implements
- OAR 603-029-1014: Labeling, Filling of Containers, Handling of Labeled Products to be Only in Compliance with Regulations — authority
- OAR 603-029-1016: Relabeling Products; Requirements — implements
- OAR 603-029-1016: Relabeling Products; Requirements — authority
- OAR 603-029-1018: Storage and Distribution of Labels and Containers Bearing Oregon Marks — implements
- OAR 603-029-1018: Storage and Distribution of Labels and Containers Bearing Oregon Marks — authority
- OAR 603-029-1020: Labeling and Containers of Custom Prepared Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1020: Labeling and Containers of Custom Prepared Products — authority
- OAR 603-029-1022: Interpretation and Statement of Labeling Policy for Cured Products; Special Labeling Requirements Concerning Nitrate and Nitrite — implements
- OAR 603-029-1022: Interpretation and Statement of Labeling Policy for Cured Products; Special Labeling Requirements Concerning Nitrate and Nitrite — authority
- OAR 603-029-1024: Packaging Materials — implements
- OAR 603-029-1024: Packaging Materials — authority
- OAR 603-029-1026: Nutrition Labeling of Meat and Meat Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1026: Nutrition Labeling of Meat and Meat Products — authority
- OAR 603-029-1028: Required Nutrition Labeling of Ground or Chopped Meat Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1028: Required Nutrition Labeling of Ground or Chopped Meat Products — authority
- OAR 603-029-1030: Location of Nutrition Information — implements
- OAR 603-029-1030: Location of Nutrition Information — authority
- OAR 603-029-1032: Labeling of Meat or Meat Products with Number of Servings — implements
This rule cites
- ORS chapter 183 — target_record_not_published
- ORS 599.205 — resolved
- ORS 603.045 — resolved
Cited by
Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors603.html