Legal Opinion
Mississippi Poultry Association, Inc. v. Edward R. Madigan, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1994No. 92-7420PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
Today we must decide whether a critical inspection standard contained in a regulation promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture (“Secretary”) is contrary to the plain language of § 17(d) of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (“PPIA”). 1
Under the PPIA, Congress devised a two-track system for regulating domestic poultry production: Domestic producers who wish to sell products inter state must comply with the federal standards embodied in the federal regulatory program; 2 domestic producers who wish to sell products only intra state may do so by complying with any state…
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