SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1235

(m) The term "capable of use as human food" shall apply to any
carcass, or part or product of a carcass of any livestock, unless it is
denatured or otherwise identified as required by regulations adopted
under this subtitle to deter its use as human food, or it is naturally
inedible by humans.

(n) The term "prepared" means slaughtered, canned, salted,
rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed.

(o)  The term "adulterated" shall apply to any carcass, part
thereof, or meat food product under one or more of the following
circumstances:

(1)  If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance
which may render it injurious to health; but in case the substance
is not an added substance, such article shall not be considered
adulterated under this clause if the quantity of such substance in or
on such article does not ordinarily render it injurious to health; or

(2)  If it bears or contains, by reason of administration of any
substance to the live animal or otherwise, any added poisonous or
added deleterious substance which is prohibited in the quantity
present with respect to such an article under the Federal Meat In-
spection Act and which may make the article unfit for human food.

(3)  If it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or
decomposed substance or is for any other reason unsound, unhealthful,
unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food; or

(4) If it has been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary
conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth,
or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health; or

(5)  If it is, in whole or in part, the product of an animal which
has died otherwise than by slaughter; or

(6)  If its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any
poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents
injurious to health; or

(7)  If it has been intentionally subjected to radiation, unless such
use of radiation was permissible under the Federal Meat Inspection
Act and approved under this subtitle; or

(8)  If any valuable constitutent has been in whole or in part
omitted or abstracted therefrom; or if any substance has been sub-
stituted, wholly or in part therefor; or if damage or inferiority has
been concealed in any manner; or if any substance has been added
thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to increase its bulk or
weight, or reduce its quality or strength, or make it appear better or
of greater value than it is; or

(9)  If it is margarine containing animal fat and any of the raw
material used therein consisting in whole or in part of any filthy,
putrid, or decomposed substance.

(p) The term "misbranded" shall apply to any carcass, part
thereof, or meat food product under one or more of the following
circumstances:

(1)  If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular; or

(2)  If it is offered for sale under the name of another food; or