Wisconsin Code § 97.44

Identification of meat for animal feed; registration and records of buyers
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(1) No person shall buy, sell or
transport any carcasses, parts thereof or meat or meat food products of any animals which are not intended for use as human food,
unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by
rules of the department or are naturally inedible by humans.
(2) Animal feed manufacturers and operators of fur farms, exempt from s. 95.72, shall register their names and business locations with the department if they engage in slaughtering animals
or in buying dead animals or parts of the carcasses of such animals. The department, by rule, may require that they keep
records of their purchase and disposition of such animals and carcass parts.
(3) As used in this section, “animals” means cattle, sheep,
goats, swine, equines, farm-raised deer, as defined in s. 95.001

(1) (ag) , and poultry, except in the phrase “animal feed
manufacturers”.

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