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HRS §159-30

Storing, handling and transporting meat

This section lets the board set rules for how meat and meat products are stored or handled by businesses that buy, sell, freeze, store, or transport them within Hawaii. The rules are meant to keep the meat from being contaminated or mislabeled when it reaches you. Breaking those rules is prohibited.

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The statute, as written — Storing, handling and transporting

The board may prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, capable of use as human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing or transporting, in or for intrastate commerce, such meat or meat products, whenever the board deems action necessary to assure that such meat or meat products will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer. The violation of any regulation is prohibited.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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