ORS 619.036: Sanitation and record inspections; seizure of nonconforming foods and facilities.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
The State Department of Agriculture is authorized: (1) To inspect at reasonable times the equipment, meat and meat products and premises of establishments, meat seller establishments, grocery stores, or other places of business, for the purpose of enforcing minimum sanitary requirements, wholesomeness of meat and meat products and other provisions of ORS 576.024, 619.010 to 619.071, 619.370 and 619.993 or rules adopted under ORS 576.024, 619.010 to 619.071, 619.370 and 619.993. (2) To seize, embargo or detain any food commodity, or quarantine any building, equipment, vehicle or facility found upon inspection or test to be in violation of ORS 619.026 to 619.066 or of any rule adopted under ORS 619.026 to 619.066. (3) To inspect at reasonable times the records required to be kept by ORS 619.031 (7). [1973 c.174 §12; 2005 c.735 §§7,8]
Administrative rules citing this section
- OAR 603-029-0200: Facilities for Department Employees — implements
- OAR 603-029-0205: Other Facilities and Conditions to be Provided by the State-Inspected Establishment — implements
- OAR 603-029-0215: Inspectors to Maintain Sanitary Conditions — implements
- OAR 603-029-0225: Overtime Charges and Holiday Inspection Service — implements
- OAR 603-029-0230: Schedule of Operations — implements
- OAR 603-029-0300: Ante-Mortem Inspection — implements
- OAR 603-029-0305: Ante-Mortem Inspection on Premises of State-Inspected Establishments — implements
- OAR 603-029-0315: Dead, Dying, Disabled, or Diseased and Similar Meat Animals — implements
- OAR 603-029-0320: Meat Animals Showing Symptoms of Certain Metabolic, Toxic, Nervous, or Circulatory Disturbances, Nutritional Imbalances, or Infectious or Parasitic Diseases — implements
- OAR 603-029-0325: Swine; Disposal Because of Hog Cholera — implements
- OAR 603-029-0330: Epithelioma of the Eye — implements
- OAR 603-029-0335: Meat Animals Affected with Anthrax; Cleaning and Disinfection of Infected Meat Animal Pens and Driveways — implements
- OAR 603-029-0345: Swine Erysipelas — implements
- OAR 603-029-0350: Onset of Parturition — implements
- OAR 603-029-0355: Vaccine Meat Animals — implements
- OAR 603-029-0360: Emergency Slaughter; Inspection Prior to — implements
- OAR 603-029-0365: Disposition of Condemned Meat Animals — implements
- OAR 603-029-0370: Brucellosis-reactor Goats — implements
- OAR 603-029-0375: Vesicular Diseases — implements
- OAR 603-029-0380: Meat Animals Suspected of Having Biological Residues — implements
- OAR 603-029-0385: Meat Animals Used for Research — implements
- OAR 603-029-0390: Official Marks and Devices for Purposes of Ante-Mortem Inspection — implements
- OAR 603-029-0401: Extent and Time of Post-Mortem Inspection; Post-Mortem Inspection Staffing Standards — implements
- OAR 603-029-0405: Identification of Carcass with Certain Severed Parts Thereof and with Animal from Which Derived — implements
- OAR 603-029-0410: Carcasses and Parts in Certain Instances to be Retained — implements
- OAR 603-029-0415: Identification of Carcasses and Parts; Tagging — implements
- OAR 603-029-0420: Condemned Carcasses and Parts to be so Marked; Tanking; Separation — implements
- OAR 603-029-0425: Carcasses and Parts Passed for Cooking; Marking — implements
- OAR 603-029-0430: Removal of Spermatic Cords, Pizzles and Preputial Diverticuli — implements
- OAR 603-029-0435: Passing and Marking of Carcasses and Parts — implements
- 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 — implements
- 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 — implements
- OAR 603-029-0450: Sternum to be Split; Abdominal and Thoracic Viscera to be Removed — implements
- OAR 603-029-0455: Inflating Carcasses or Parts Thereof; Transferring Caul or Other Fat — implements
- OAR 603-029-0460: Handling of Bruised Parts — implements
- OAR 603-029-0465: Disposition of Thyroid Glands and Laryngeal Muscle Tissue — implements
- OAR 603-029-0470: Disposition of Lungs — implements
- OAR 603-029-0475: Inspection of Mammary Glands — implements
- OAR 603-029-0480: Contamination of Carcasses, Organs, or Other Parts — implements
- OAR 603-029-0485: Inspection of Kidneys — implements
- OAR 603-029-0490: Saving of Blood from Meat Animals as an Edible Product — implements
- OAR 603-029-0492: Carcasses Suspected of Containing Sulfa and Antibiotic Residues; Sampling Frequency; Disposition of Affected Carcasses and Parts — implements
- OAR 603-029-0494: Specified Risk Materials from Cattle and Their Handling and Disposition — implements
- OAR 603-029-0496: Identification of Carcasses and Parts of Swine — implements
- OAR 603-029-0498: Contamination with Microorganisms; Process Control Verification Criteria and Testing; Pathogen Reduction Standards — implements
- OAR 603-029-0500: Disposal of Diseased or Otherwise Adulterated Carcasses and Parts; General — implements
- OAR 603-029-0502: Tuberculosis — implements
- OAR 603-029-0504: Hog Cholera — implements
- OAR 603-029-0507: Swine Erysipelas — implements
- OAR 603-029-0508: Diamond-Skin Disease — implements
- OAR 603-029-0510: Arthritis — implements
- OAR 603-029-0512: Cattle Carcasses Affected with Anasarca or Generalized Edema — implements
- OAR 603-029-0514: Actinomycosis and Actinobacillosis — implements
- 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 — implements
- OAR 603-029-0518: Neoplasms — implements
- OAR 603-029-0520: Epithelioma of the Eye — implements
- OAR 603-029-0522: Pigmentary Conditions; Melanosis, Xanthosis, Ochronosis, etc — implements
- OAR 603-029-0524: Abrasions, Bruises, Abscesses, Pus, etc. — implements
- OAR 603-029-0526: Brucellosis — implements
- OAR 603-029-0528: Carcasses so Infected that Consumption of the Meat may Cause Food Poisoning — implements
- OAR 603-029-0530: Necrobacillosis, Pyemia, and Septicemia — implements
- OAR 603-029-0532: Caseous Lymphadenitis — implements
- OAR 603-029-0534: Icterus — implements
- OAR 603-029-0536: Sexual Odor of Swine — implements
- OAR 603-029-0538: Mange or Scab — implements
- OAR 603-029-0540: Hogs Affected with Urticaria, Tinea Tonsurans, Demodex Follicurlorum, or Erythema — implements
- OAR 603-029-0542: Tapeworm Cysts (Cysticercus Bovis) in Cattle — implements
- OAR 603-029-0544: Hogs Affected with Tapeworm Cysts — implements
- OAR 603-029-0546: Parasites not Transmissible to Man; Tapeworm Cysts in Sheep; Hydatid Cysts; Flukes; Gid Bladder-Worms. — implements
- OAR 603-029-0548: Emaciation — implements
- OAR 603-029-0550: Injured Meat Animals Slaughtered at Unusual Hours — implements
- OAR 603-029-0552: Carcasses of Young Calves, Pigs, Kids, Lambs, and Foals — implements
- OAR 603-029-0554: Unborn and Stillborn Meat Animals — implements
- OAR 603-029-0556: Meat Animals Suffocated and Hogs Scalded Alive — implements
- OAR 603-029-0558: Livers Affected with Carotenosis; Livers Designated as “Telangiectatic,” “Sawdust,” Or “Spotted” — implements
- OAR 603-029-0560: Vesicular Diseases — implements
- OAR 603-029-0562: Listeriosis — implements
- OAR 603-029-0564: Anemia — implements
- OAR 603-029-0566: Muscular Inflammation, Degeneration, or Infiltration — implements
- OAR 603-029-0568: Coccidioidal Granuloma — implements
- OAR 603-029-0570: Odors, Foreign and Urine — implements
- OAR 603-029-0572: Meat and Meat Byproducts from Meat Animals Which Have Been Exposed to Radiation — implements
- OAR 603-029-0574: Biological Residues — implements
- OAR 603-029-0600: General — implements
- OAR 603-029-0610: Oregon Marks and Devices to Identify Inspected and Passed Products of Cattle, Sheep, Swine, or Goats. — implements
- OAR 603-029-0615: Oregon Ante-Mortem Inspection Marks and Devices — implements
- OAR 603-029-0620: Oregon Marks and Devices in Connection with Post-Mortem Inspection and Identification of Adulterated Products and Insanitary Equipment and Facilities — implements
- OAR 603-029-0625: Official Seals for Transportation of Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-0728: Ritual Slaughter Practices and Exemption — implements
- OAR 603-029-0800: Disposition of Condemned Products at State-Inspected Establishments Having Tanking Facilities; Sealing of Tanks. — implements
- OAR 603-029-0805: Tanking and Other Facilities for Inedible Products to be Separate from Edible Product Facilities. — implements
- OAR 603-029-0810: Disposition of Condemned Products at State-Inspected Establishments Having no Tanking Facilities — implements
- OAR 603-029-0815: Suppression of Odors in Preparing Inedible Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-0820: Inedible Rendered Fats Prepared at State-Inspected Establishments — implements
- OAR 603-029-0825: Inedible Fats from Outside State-Inspected Establishments — implements
- OAR 603-029-0830: Carcasses of Meat Animals Condemned on Ante-Mortem Inspection not to Pass Through Edible Meat Product Areas — implements
- OAR 603-029-0835: Dead Meat Animal Carcasses — implements
- OAR 603-029-0840: Specimens for Educational, Research, and Other Nonfood Purposes; Permits for, Required — implements
- OAR 603-029-0845: Livers Condemned Because of Parasitic Infestation and for Other Causes; Conditions for Disposal for Purposes Other than Human Food — implements
- OAR 603-029-0850: Handling of Certain Condemned Products for Purposes Other than Human Food — implements
- OAR 603-029-0880: Carcasses and Parts Passed for Cooking; Rendering into Lard or Tallow — implements
- OAR 603-029-0885: Carcasses and Parts Passed for Cooking; Utilization for Food Purposes after Cooking — implements
- OAR 603-029-0890: Disposal of Products Passed for Cooking if not Handled According to this Part — implements
- OAR 603-029-0900: Authorization Required to Make Devices Bearing Oregon Marks — implements
- OAR 603-029-0905: Approval Required for Oregon Marks — implements
- OAR 603-029-0910: Use of Oregon Marks Prohibited Except Under Supervision of a Department Employee; Removal of Oregon Marks, when Required — implements
- OAR 603-029-0915: Marking Devices; to be Furnished by State-Inspected Establishments; Control of — implements
- OAR 603-029-0920: Branding Ink; to be Furnished by State-Inspected Establishments; Approval by Department; Color — implements
- OAR 603-029-0925: Products not to be Removed from State-Inspected Establishments Unless Marked in Accordance with the Regulations — implements
- OAR 603-029-0930: Marking Devices not to be False or Misleading; Style and Size of Lettering; Approval Required — implements
- OAR 603-029-0935: Unmarked Inspected Products; Moved Between State-Inspected Establishments; Moved in Commerce — implements
- OAR 603-029-0940: Products to be Marked with Oregon Marks — implements
- OAR 603-029-0945: Marking of Meat Products with Oregon Inspection Legend and Ingredient Statement — implements
- OAR 603-029-0950: Special Markings for Certain Meat Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-0955: Marking of Outside Containers — implements
- OAR 603-029-0960: Marking Tank Cars and Tank Trucks Used in Transportation of Edible Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-0965: Marking Outside Containers of Inedible Grease, etc. — implements
- OAR 603-029-0970: Custom Prepared Products to be Marked — implements
- OAR 603-029-1100: Products and Other Articles Entering State-Inspected Establishments — implements
- OAR 603-029-1105: Reinspection, Retention, and Disposal of Meat and Poultry Products at State-Inspected Establishments — implements
- OAR 603-029-1110: Designation of Places of Receipt of Products and Other Articles for Reinspection — implements
- OAR 603-029-1115: Preparation of Products to be Officially Supervised; Responsibilities of State-Inspected Establishments ; Plant Operated Quality Control — implements
- OAR 603-029-1125: Requirements Concerning Ingredients and Other Articles Used in Preparation of Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1130: Samples of Products, Water, Dyes, Chemicals, etc., to be Taken for Examination — implements
- OAR 603-029-1135: Manufacture of Uninspected, Inedible Products at State-Inspected Establishments — implements
- OAR 603-029-1140: Mixtures Containing Product but not Amendable to the Act — implements
- OAR 603-029-1145: Adulteration of Product by Polluted Water; Procedure for Handling — implements
- OAR 603-029-1150: Tagging Chemicals, Preservatives, Cereals, Spices, etc., “Oregon Retained” — implements
- OAR 603-029-1155: Pesticide Chemicals and Other Residues in Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1160: Requirements for the Production of Cooked Beef, Roast Beef, and Cooked Corned Beef Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1165: Handling of Certain Material for Mechanical Processing — implements
- OAR 603-029-1170: Compliance Procedure for Cured Pork Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1175: Use of Animal Drugs — implements
- OAR 603-029-1180: Determination of Added Water in Cooked Sausages — implements
- OAR 603-029-1185: Heat-Processing and Stabilization Requirements for Uncured Meat Patties — implements
- OAR 603-029-1190: Product Prepared Using Advanced Meat/Bone Separation Machinery; Process Control — implements
- OAR 603-029-1200: Labeling and Preparation of Standardized Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1202: Products and Nitrates and Nitrites — implements
- OAR 603-029-1204: Mechanically Separated (Species) — implements
- OAR 603-029-1206: Limitations with Respect to use of Mechanically Separated (Species) — implements
- OAR 603-029-1208: Requirements for Substitute Standardized Meat Products Named by use of an Expressed Nutrient Content Claim and a Standardized Term — implements
- OAR 603-029-1210: Miscellaneous Beef Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1212: Miscellaneous Pork Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1214: Barbecued Meats — implements
- OAR 603-029-1216: Roast Beef Parboiled and Steam Roasted — implements
- OAR 603-029-1218: Corned Beef — implements
- OAR 603-029-1220: Corned Beef Brisket — implements
- OAR 603-029-1222: Corned Beef Round and Other Corned Beef Cuts — implements
- OAR 603-029-1224: Cured Beef Tongue — implements
- OAR 603-029-1226: Cured Pork Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1228: “Ham Patties,” “Chopped Ham,” “Pressed Ham,” “Spiced Ham,” and Similar Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1230: “Country Ham,” “Country Style Ham,” “Dry Cured Ham,” “Country Pork Shoulder,” “Country Style Pork Shoulder,” and “Dry Cured Pork Shoulder” — implements
- OAR 603-029-1232: Bacon — implements
- OAR 603-029-1234: Sausage — implements
- OAR 603-029-1236: Fresh Pork Sausage — implements
- OAR 603-029-1238: Fresh Beef Sausage — implements
- OAR 603-029-1240: Breakfast Sausage — implements
- OAR 603-029-1242: Whole Hog Sausage — implements
- OAR 603-029-1244: Italian Sausage Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1246: Smoked Pork Sausage — implements
- OAR 603-029-1248: Frankfurter, Frank, Furter, Hotdog, Weiner, Vienna, Bologna, Garlic Bologna, Knockwurst, and Similar Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1250: Cheesefurters and Similar Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1252: Braunschweiger and Liver Sausage or Liverwurst — implements
- OAR 603-029-1254: Luncheon Meat — implements
- OAR 603-029-1256: Meat Loaf — implements
- OAR 603-029-1258: Scrapple — implements
- OAR 603-029-1260: Bockwurst — implements
- OAR 603-029-1262: Chili Con Carne — implements
- OAR 603-029-1264: Chili Con Carne with Beans — implements
- OAR 603-029-1266: Hash — implements
- OAR 603-029-1268: Corned Beef Hash — implements
- OAR 603-029-1270: Meat Stews — implements
- OAR 603-029-1272: Tamales — implements
- OAR 603-029-1274: Spaghetti with Meatballs and Sauce, Spaghetti with Meat and Sauce, and Similar Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1276: Spaghetti Sauce with Meat — implements
- OAR 603-029-1278: Tripe with Milk — implements
- OAR 603-029-1280: Beans with Frankfurters in Sauce, Sauerkraut with Wieners and Juice, and Similar Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1282: Lima Beans with Ham in Sauce, Beans with Ham in Sauce, Beans with Bacon in Sauce, and Similar Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1284: Chow Mein Vegetables with Meat, and Chop Suey Vegetables with Meat — implements
- OAR 603-029-1286: Pork with Barbecue Sauce and Beef with Barbecue Sauce — implements
- OAR 603-029-1287: Beef with Gravy and Gravy with Beef — implements
- OAR 603-029-1288: Meat Pies — implements
- OAR 603-029-1289: Margarine or Oleomargarine — implements
- OAR 603-029-1290: Mixed Fat Shortening — implements
- OAR 603-029-1291: Lard, Leaf Lard — implements
- OAR 603-029-1292: Rendered Animal Fat or Mixture Thereof — implements
- OAR 603-029-1293: Meat Extract — implements
- OAR 603-029-1294: Fluid Extract of Meat — implements
- OAR 603-029-1295: Deviled Ham, Deviled Tongue, and Similar Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1296: Potted Meat Product and Deviled Meat Product — implements
- OAR 603-029-1297: Ham Spread, Tongue Spread, and Similar Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1298: Breaded Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1299: Liver Meat Products — implements
- OAR 603-029-1300: Records Required to be Kept — implements
- OAR 603-029-1305: Place of Maintenance of Records — implements
- OAR 603-029-1310: Record Retention Period — implements
- OAR 603-029-1315: Access to and Inspection of Records, Facilities and Inventory; Copying and Sampling — implements
- OAR 603-029-1320: Registration — implements
- OAR 603-029-1325: Information and Reports Required from State-Inspected Establishment Operators — implements
- OAR 603-029-1330: Reports by Consignees of Allegedly Adulterated or Misbranded Products; Sale or Transportation as Violations — implements
This rule cites
- ORS 576.024 — resolved
- 619.010 — resolved
- 619.071 — resolved
- 619.370 — resolved
- 619.993 — resolved
- ORS 619.026 — resolved
- 619.066 — resolved
- ORS 619.031 — resolved
Cited by
- ORS 603.038: Licensing exemption for certain poultry and rabbit processors.
- ORS 616.910: Donations of meat; rules.
- ORS 619.010: Definitions for ORS 619.010 to 619.026 and 619.036 to 619.066.
- ORS 619.016: Short title.
- ORS 619.031: Animal food slaughtering and processing establishments; license fees; application of ORS chapter 603; prohibitions and requirements; rules.
- OAR 603-028-0920: Schedule of Civil Penalties
Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors619.html