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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "21 U.S.C. § 644"
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description: "Regulation of transactions, transportation, or importation of 4–D animals to prevent use as human food"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 21
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title_name: "FOOD AND DRUGS"
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chapter_number: "12"
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chapter_name: "MEAT INSPECTION"
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section: "644"
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citation: "21 U.S.C. § 644"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc21@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t21/s644"
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source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-21/usc21.xml"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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# 21 U.S.C. § 644 - Regulation of transactions, transportation, or importation of 4–D animals to prevent use as human food
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## Text
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No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in commerce, or importing, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce, or import, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such transaction, transportation or importation is made in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
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(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, § 204, as added Pub. L. 90–201, § 14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 594.)
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