Title 20 — Public Health and Welfare

(a) Whoever shall knowingly sell or offer or expose for sale, or bring or cause to be brought into this state to sell or offer for sale, or shall have in his, her, or their possession with intent to sell for food, the flesh of any animal dying otherwise than by slaughter, or slau…

(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Food salvage distributor” means a person, firm, or corporation that engages in the business of distributing, peddling, or otherwise trafficking in any salvaged products enumerated in the definition of a food …

A.C.A. § 20-57-103Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) Employees of food service establishments shall keep their hands and exposed portions of their arms clean in a manner approved by the Department of Health. (b) (1) Except when washing fruits and vegetables, employees of food service establishments shall avoid contact of expose…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Good Neighbor Act”. (b) As used in this section:(1) “Food” means any raw, cooked, processed, or prepared edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use in whole or in part for human consump…

(1) As used in §§ 20-57-203 — 20-57-205:(1) (A) (i) “Food service establishment” means any place where food is prepared, processed, stored, or intended for use or consumption by the public regardless of whether there is a charge for the food.(ii) “Food service establishment” incl…

A.C.A. § 20-57-202Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(1) The Secretary of the Department of Health shall have:(1) Power and authority to prevent the proliferation of infections, contagious, and communicable diseases resulting from unsanitary food service operations; and(2) Direction and control over all sanitary and quarantine meas…

(a) No food service establishment shall be allowed to operate unless it has procured a food establishment permit from the Division of Environmental Health Protection of the Department of Health. (b) (1) Permits issued under this section, §§ 20-57-201, 20-57-202 [repealed], 20-57-…

(a) All fees levied and collected under the provisions of §§ 20-57-102 and 20-57-204 are declared to be special revenues and shall be deposited into the State Treasury, there to be credited to the Public Health Fund to be used exclusively by the Division of Environmental Health P…

A food service establishment which holds a current food service permit issued by the Division of Environmental Health Protection of the Department of Health under the provisions of §§ 20-57-102 and 20-57-201, 20-57-202 [repealed], 20-57-203 — 20-57-205 shall not be required to pa…

(a) The Secretary of the Department of Health shall study and approve instructions detailing first aid techniques and a poster diagramming first aid techniques designed and intended for use by a person without medical training in removing food which has become lodged in the throa…

(a) As used in this section, “food service establishment” means any restaurant, cafe, cafeteria, soda fountain, hotel kitchen, tavern, industrial feeding establishment, school lunchroom, grocery store, hospital kitchen, nursing home kitchen, and any private, public, or nonprofit …

A.C.A. § 20-57-209Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

This subchapter may be cited as the “Flour and Bread Enrichment Act”.

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Appropriate federal agency” means the United States Food and Drug Administration or any agency or department or administrative federal officer charged with the enforcement and administration of the Federal…

(a) The terms of this subchapter shall not apply to flour or bread which is made from the entire wheat berry with no parts of the wheat removed from the mixture. In cases of flour or bread containing mixtures of the whole wheat berry and white flour or mixtures of various portion…

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this subchapter, or the orders or rules promulgated by the Secretary of the Department of Health under authority thereof, shall upon conviction be subject to a fine for each and every offense in a sum not exceeding five hundred dol…

(a) The State Board of Health is authorized as the administrative agency and is directed:(1) To make, amend, and rescind such rules as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter, including, but without being limited to, such orders and rules as it is specific…

(a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, mix, compound, sell, or offer for sale within this state or to ship into this state for human consumption in this state any flour, as defined in § 20-57-302, unless the following vitamins and other ingredients are contai…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, bake, sell, or offer for sale, or to receive in interstate shipment for sale for human consumption in this state, any bread, as defined in § 20-57-302, unless the following vitamins and other ingredients are contained in eac…

The enrichment of bread may be accomplished through the use of enriched flour, other enriched ingredients, synthetic vitamins, harmless iron salts, or by any combination of harmless methods which will produce enriched bread which meets the requirements of § 20-57-306.

It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale in this state any enriched flour or enriched bread which fails to conform to the labeling of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder by the appropriate agency with respect to flour or bread…

(1) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment of not less than thirty (30) days or not more than six (6) months, in the discretion of the court, who:(1) Shall sell or expose for sale in any restaur…

(a) Unless the product is pure honey manufactured by honeybees, it is unlawful for any person to:(1) Package any product and label the product as “honey” or “imitation honey” or to use the word “honey” in any prominent location on the label of the product; or(2) Sell or offer for…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Make Arkansas Healthy Again Act”. (b) A person or entity shall not manufacture, sell, deliver, distribute, hold, or offer for sale in commerce a food product for human consumption that contains any of the following substanc…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Food Freedom Act”.

(1) The purpose of this subchapter is to allow for a producer's production and sale of homemade food or drink products for an informed end consumer and to encourage the expansion of agricultural sales at farmers' markets, ranches, farms, and producers' homes or offices by:(1) Fac…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Delivery” means the transfer of a homemade food or drink product resulting from a transaction between a producer and an informed end consumer.(B) “Delivery” includes the transfer of a homemade food or drink product to an informed end consum…

(a) Unless otherwise provided in this section, homemade food or drink products produced and sold in compliance with this subchapter are exempt from state licensure, certification, inspection, and packaging and labeling requirements. (b) A transaction under this subchapter shall:(…

(a) The following information shall be provided to the informed end consumer as described in subsection (b) of this section:(1) The date that the homemade food or drink product was manufactured, produced, or processed;(2) The name, address, and telephone number of the producer of…

(a) Except as provided in this subchapter, a homemade food or drink product shall not be sold or used in any food service establishment. (b) A homemade food or drink product may be sold:(1) From a retail space located at the ranch, farm, home, or office where the homemade food or…

(a) This subchapter does not:(1) Impede the Department of Health in any investigation of foodborne illness;(2) Change the requirements for brand inspection or animal health inspections;(3) Preclude an agency from providing assistance, consultation, or inspection, at the request o…