Inspections - Examinations
N.D. Cent. Code § 19-02.1-21
in effect19-02.1-21. Inspections - Examinations
The department has free access at all reasonable hours to any factory, warehouse, or
establishment in which foods, drugs, devices, or cosmetics are manufactured, processed,
packed, or held for introduction into commerce, or to enter any vehicle being used to transport
or hold such foods, drugs, devices, or cosmetics in commerce, for the purpose of inspecting
such factory, warehouse, establishment, or vehicle to determine if this chapter is being violated
and to secure samples or specimens of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic after paying or
offering to pay for such sample.
The department shall make or cause to be made examinations of samples secured under
this section to determine whether or not this chapter is being violated.
Inspections of slaughterhouses, meatpacking, and meat processing plants where cattle,
swine, sheep, goats, farmed elk, horses, or other equines are slaughtered for human food or
where the carcass or the parts thereof, meat, or meat food products are salted, canned, packed,
smoked, cured, rendered, or otherwise processed or prepared for human food may not be
performed under this chapter if the slaughterhouses, meatpacking, or meat processing plants
are inspected under the North Dakota Meat Inspection Act, or the Federal Meat Inspection Act,
as amended [34 Stat. 1260-65; 21 U.S.C. 71-91].
Source: Open US Law by Vaquill AI (CC BY 4.0)URL: https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t19c02-1.pdf#nameddest=19-02p1-21Fetched: 10/16/2026