Title FAC — California Food & Agric. Code

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health, but in case the substance is not an added substance, such livestock or poultry product shall not be considered adulterated if the …

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated in each of the following cases: (a) It bears or contains, by reason of administration of any substance to the livestock or poultry or otherwise any added poisonous or added deleterious substance, other than one which is: (1) a pestici…

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it consists, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or is for any other reason unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food.

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it has been prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions by which it may have become contaminated with filth, or been rendered injurious to health.

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it is, in whole or in part, the product of an animal, including any poultry, which has died otherwise than by slaughter.

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents of the livestock or poultry product injurious to health.

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it has been intentionally subjected to radiation, unless the use of the radiation was in conformity with a regulation or exemption in effect pursuant to Section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C., Sec. 348).

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated in each of the following cases: (a) Any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted from the livestock or poultry product. (b) Any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for any valuable constit…

A livestock or poultry product is adulterated if it is margarine containing animal fat and any of the raw material used in it consisted, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance.

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded in each of the following cases: (a) Its labeling is false or misleading in any particular. (b) It is offered for sale under the name of another food. (c) It is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears, in type of uniform si…

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded unless it bears a label showing all of the following: (a) The name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor. (b) An accurate statement of the quantity of the product in terms of weight, measure, or numerical co…

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if any word, statement, or other information required by, or under authority of, this chapter to appear on the label or other labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness, as compared with other words, statement…

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it purports to be, or is represented, as a food for which a definition and standard of identity or composition has been prescribed by the regulations of the director under Section 18731 unless it conforms to such definition and stan…

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it purports to be, or is represented as, a food for which a standard or standards of fill of container have been prescribed by regulations of the director under this chapter, and it falls below the standard of fill of container appl…

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it is not subject to the provisions of Section 18784, unless its label bears the common or usual name of the food, if any, and in case it consists of two or more ingredients, the common or usual name of each such ingredient. The dir…

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it purports to be, or is represented to be, for special dietary uses, unless its label bears such information concerning its vitamin, mineral, and other dietary properties as the director, after consultation with the Secretary of Ag…

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it bears or contains any artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, or chemical preservative, unless it is so indicated on the label. To the extent that compliance with the requirements of this section is impracticable, the director…

A livestock or poultry product is misbranded if it fails to bear, directly upon the livestock or poultry product and on its container, as the director may prescribe, the official inspection legend and establishment number of the establishment where the product was prepared. The d…

For the purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 18691) of this chapter, the director may exempt the operations of any person from inspection or other requirements of this chapter to the extent such operations would be exempt from the corresponding requirements under the Fe…

The director shall exempt from inspection the slaughtering and preparation by any person of any livestock or poultry of his own raising, exclusively for use by him, members of his household, his nonpaying guests, or employees, and may exempt any other operation which the director…

The director shall not provide inspection under this chapter at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or poultry or the preparation of any livestock product or poultry product that is not intended for use as human food. The product, unless naturally inedible by humans,…

(a) This chapter shall apply to a retail store only to the same extent as the federal acts and regulations issued thereunder are applicable to retail stores, except as provided in subdivision (b). (b) No livestock product or poultry product shall be prepared at any such retail st…

It is unlawful for any person to slaughter any livestock or poultry, or prepare any livestock or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, at any establishment preparing such article solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this c…

It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any article required to be inspected under this chapter, unless such article has been inspected and passed, or any livestock, poultry, livest…

It is unlawful for any person to do, with respect to any livestock, poultry, livestock product, or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, any act while it is being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transportation, which is intended to …

It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, or from an official establishment, any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in ac…

It is unlawful for any person to violate any provision of the regulations promulgated by the director under this chapter.

It is unlawful for any brand manufacturer, printer, or other person to cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate or simulation the…

It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following: (a) Forge any official device, mark, or certificate. (b) Without authorization from the director to use any official device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official de…

It is unlawful for any person to sell any dressed carcass of any livestock or poultry which is intended for food purposes, or any prepared meat or meat food product or poultry product within the state unless it bears the “inspected and passed” stamp of federal inspection or state…

It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcass of any horse, mule, or other equine, or any part of the carcass, or any meat or meat food product thereof, unless it is plainly a…

It is unlawful for any person to buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any livestock product or poultry product that is not intended for use as human food, unless it is denatured or otherwise identified a…

It is unlawful for any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter to buy, sell, transport, offer for sal…

It is unlawful for any person to give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any officer or employee of this state authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter or by the regulations of the director, any money or other thing of value, with intent to influ…

It is unlawful for any officer or employee of this state authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter to accept any money, gift, or other thing of value from any person, given with intent to influence his official action, or to receive or accept from any per…

It is unlawful for any person to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter.

It is unlawful for any person to neglect or refuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if such evidence is available to him, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the director.

It is unlawful for any person to willfully make, or cause to be made, any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be made under this chapter or to willfully make, or cause to be made, any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by any person subj…

It is unlawful for any person required by this chapter to file any annual or special report to fail so to do within the time fixed by the director for filing the report.

Since it cannot be determined with certainty, by any present known method of inspection, whether meat, including any poultry meat, is unwholesome unless the organs and other tissues of an animal are inspected when slaughtered, and as meat and meat food products, and poultry produ…

Whenever any livestock product or poultry product or any product exempted from the definition of a livestock product and from the definition of a poultry product, or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry, is found by any authorized representative of the dire…

Any livestock product or poultry product or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry that is being transported in intrastate commerce, or is otherwise subject to this chapter, or is held for sale in this state after such transportation shall be liable to be pro…

The provisions of Section 18873 shall in no way derogate from authority for condemnation or seizure conferred by other provisions of this chapter, or other laws.

The director may gather and compile information, and investigate the organization, business, conduct, practices, management, and the relation to other persons of any person subject to this chapter engaged in intrastate commerce.

The director may require, by general or special orders, persons subject to this chapter engaged in intrastate commerce, to file with him, in such form as he may prescribe, annual or special, reports or answers in writing to specific questions, furnishing such information as he ma…

For the purpose of this chapter, the director shall at all reasonable times have access to examine and to copy any documentary evidence of any person being investigated or proceeded against, and may require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production …

Attendance of witnesses, and the production of documentary evidence, may be required at any designated place of hearing. In case of disobedience to a subpoena the director may invoke the aid of any superior court designated in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses a…

The superior court within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on may, in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, issue an order requiring such person to appear before the director or to produce documentary evidence if so ordered, or to …

The director may order testimony to be taken by deposition in any proceeding or investigation pending under this chapter at any stage of such proceeding or investigation. Such depositions may be taken before any person designated by the director and having power to administer oat…

Witnesses summoned before the director shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the superior court of this state, and witnesses whose depositions are taken and the persons taking the same shall be entitled to the same fees as are paid for such services i…