(225 ILCS 650/5) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 305)
Sec. 5.
Exemptions - Producers, Retailers, and Poultry Raisers.
The following types of establishments are exempt from the specific
provisions of this Act:
(A) A "producer" means any person engaged in producing agricultural
products, for personal or family use, on whose farm the number of animals
or poultry is in keeping with
the size of the farm or with the volume or character of the agricultural
products produced thereon, but does not mean any person engaged in
producing agricultural products who:
1. actively engages in buying or trading animals or |
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2. actively engages directly or indirectly in
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3. actively engages, directly or indirectly, in
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| canning, curing, pickling, freezing, salting meat or poultry, or in preparing meat or poultry products for sale; or
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4. slaughters or permits any person to slaughter on
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| his or their farm animals or poultry not owned by the producer for more than 30 days.
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(A-5) Retail dealers or retail butchers with
respect to meat or poultry products sold directly to consumers in retail
stores; provided, that the only processing operation performed by such
retail dealers or retail butchers is the cutting up of meat or poultry
products which have been inspected under the provisions of this Act and is
incidental to the operation of the retail food store.
(B) Poultry raisers with respect to poultry raised on their own
farms or
premises (a) if such raisers slaughter, eviscerate, or further process not
more than 5,000 poultry during the calendar year for which this exemption is
being granted; (b) such poultry raisers do not engage in
buying or selling poultry products other than those produced from poultry
raised on their own farms or premises; (c) such poultry or poultry
products are slaughtered, otherwise prepared, sold or delivered to the
consumer on or from the premises for which the exemption is given; (d) such
slaughter or preparation shall be performed in sanitary facilities, in a
sanitary manner, and subject to periodic inspection by Department
personnel; (e) persons desiring such exemptions shall submit in writing a
request to the Department. The exemption shall be effective upon
written notice from the Department and shall remain in effect for a period
of 2 years, unless revoked. Adequate records must be maintained to assure
that not more than the number of exempted poultry are slaughtered or
processed in one calendar year. Such records shall be kept for one year
following the termination of each exemption. Any advertisement regarding
the exempt poultry or poultry products shall reflect the fact of exemption
so as not to mislead the consumer to presume official inspection has been
made under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Act.
(Source: P.A. 91-170, eff. 1-1-00; 91-614, eff. 1-1-00; 92-16, eff.
6-28-01.)
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