(225 ILCS 635/2.1) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 241.1)
Sec. 2.1.
No carcass or part of a carcass of a horse, donkey, mule or other
animal of the genus equus shall be transported into or slaughtered in the
State of Illinois, or held, kept, sold, offered for sale or given away
unless it shall be ground, chopped or comminuted so that no piece shall be
greater than 3/4 of an inch in any dimension and unless the mass shall be
denatured by thoroughly and evenly mixing therein
ground bone in an
amount sufficient to be felt and determined by feel when rolled between the
fingers; or not less than 1% by weight of No. 10 to No. 14 U.S. standard
mesh granular charcoal; or by coloring with a harmless coloring matter,
other than red; or in any other manner approved by the Department of
Agriculture of the State of Illinois. Nothing in this Act prohibits the
sale or transportation of bulk meat to a licensed processor if it is
denatured as provided above. This Act does not prohibit
the sale or
transportation of undenatured bulk horse meat
to a licensed processor
under a permit granted by the Director upon evidence satisfactory to the
Director that such bulk horse meat will not be resold or again transported
contrary to the provisions of this Act. Nothing in this Section shall apply
to horse meat labeled as such in hermetically sealed containers and horse
meat in frozen packages of one pound or less, clearly labeled "horse meat",
bearing the federal inspection legend and packed in a federally inspected
packing plant.
(Source: P.A. 83-760.)
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