N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 96-q: Unmarked and unlabeled meat

§ 96-q. Unmarked and unlabeled meat. Inasmuch as it cannot be

determined for certain by any presently known method of inspection

whether meat is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit or

unsafe for food unless the organs and other tissues of an animal are

inspected when slaughtered, or whether meat, meat by-products or meat

food products are unsound, unhealthful and unwholesome or contain dyes,

chemicals, preservatives or ingredients which render such products

adulterated unless inspected where processed, and as uninspected meat,

meat by-products and meat food products may be unfit or unsafe for human

consumption, the commissioner shall seize and destroy for food purposes

any meat, meat by-product or meat food product that does not bear an

official inspection legend affixed pursuant to a federal inspection;

provided nothing herein shall affect the possession by a custom

slaughterer or custom processor, or the possession and transportation by

the owner of custom slaughtered meat or farm dressed meat when meats are

identified as such in accordance with rules and regulations duly

promulgated pursuant to the federal meat inspection act and all acts

amendatory thereof; and provided, further, nothing herein shall affect

the transportation of dead animals, properly identified, condemned

carcasses and parts of carcasses, and other condemned or inedible

product or material to rendering plants.