Ontario. Livestock Inspection Branch

• Livestock Inspection Branch

• Meat Industry Inspection Branch

The Livestock Inspection Branch was formed in 1982 after the Live Stock Branch and the Veterinary Services Branch were dissolved, both of which had inspection programs. In 1993 its name was changed to the Meat Industry Inspection Branch. In 1997 the Meat Industry Inspection Branch ceased to exist when the Food Inspection Branch was formed, which took on the function of meat inspection as well as dairy and horiticultural inspections.

The Livestock Inspection Brach administered the following acts: the Meat Inspection Act (licensing and inspection of red meat and poultry slaughtering plants); the Live Stock Community Sales Act (licensing and inspection of live stock community sales); the Live Stock and Live Stock Products Act (Licensing live stock dealers under the Beef Cattle Financial Protection Program and administering the regulations pertaining to eggs); the Farm Products Payments Act; the Sheep and Wool Marketing Act (identifying and outlining the functions of the Ontario Sheep Association); the Provincial Auctioneers Act (licensing auctioneers to sell purebred live stock, by public auction); the Beef Cattle marketing Act (proving for the licence fee for the Ontario Cattlemen's Association, regulation the marketing of rail weight beef carcasses); the Farm Products Grades and Sales Act (related to the grades of beef, veal, lamb, mutton and poultry). The branch also provided inspection at all levels of the meat industry, particularly those operations exempt from the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act (Ontario).

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