Title FAC, California Food & Agric. Code

The director may seize and quarantine any pesticide that is adulterated, misbranded, or detrimental to agriculture or to the public health, or which is otherwise not in conformity with any provision of this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 75. Effective January 1, …

Any container or subcontainer of extracted honey which is produced entirely within this state may be conspicuously marked with the name “California.” (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

A container or subcontainer of comb or extracted honey shall not be marked or labeled with the name “California” unless the honey in the container or subcontainer was produced entirely within this state. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Every container and subcontainer of imported honey shall be labeled with the name of the territory or foreign country from which it is imported or, when it is repackaged subsequent to importation, in accordance with subdivision (a) or (b): (a) As “imported,” if repackaged either …

If the floral flavor of comb or extracted honey is stated on the container the honey contained in the container or subcontainer shall be true to such flavor, unless the honey is a blend of two or more floral types and one floral type is predominant. If the honey is such a blend, …

Half-and-half is a food that complies with Section 131.180 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Half-and-half shall contain not more than 20,000 bacteria per milliliter and not more than 10 coliform bacteria per milliliter. (Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 339, Sec. 8. Eff…

It is unlawful for any person to deliver or to accept tomatoes for processing purposes, or to process any tomatoes, which have not been certified as meeting the requirements of this chapter or the regulations established pursuant to this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 676,…

It is unlawful for any person to deliver to a processor or for any processor to accept delivery of any load of tomatoes which has been rejected for failing to comply with the standards established pursuant to this chapter, until the load has been reconditioned to comply with the …

It is unlawful for any person to remove, deface, or destroy, any warning tag or notice which has been placed by a proper enforcing officer upon a rejected lot or load of tomatoes for processing purposes. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 676, Sec. 28.)

The enforcing officer may, and if requested by an enforcing officer of the county of destination shall, affix a warning notice to any vehicle or other means of transportation, or to any load or lot, of fruits, nuts, or vegetables which do not conform to the standards which are es…

The warning notice, the disposal order which directs the proper disposition of such products, and the disposal order receipt to be signed by an enforcing officer at destination which confirms such disposition, shall be in the form which is specified by, and provided by, the direc…

The enforcing officer at the point of destination of such load or lot shall determine that the load or lot has been delivered to the consignee at the destination which is specified in the order and shall then release the load or lot and contersign the disposal order receipt so gi…

It is unlawful for any person to deliver any load or lot of fruits, nuts, or vegetables which is subject to a disposal order to any person or destination except the person or destination which is shown on the disposal order, unless he is specifically authorized in writing to do s…

It is unlawful for any person to dispose of any load or lot of fruits, nuts, or vegetables which is subject to a disposal order prior to the release in writing of the load or lot by the enforcing officer at the point of destination. This section does not, however, make it unlawfu…

It is unlawful for any person to use or dispose of any fruits, nuts, or vegetables, for which a disposal order has been issued, in any manner or for any purpose except the manner or purpose for which such disposal order was issued, unless such person is specifically authorized in…

Except as otherwise provided in this section or in Section 52486, it is unlawful for any person to ship, deliver, transport, or sell any agricultural or vegetable seed within this state, other than the seed that is described in Section 52451, unless the test to determine the perc…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 52486, it is unlawful for any person to ship, deliver, transport, or sell any agricultural or vegetable seed within this state that is within any of the following classes: (a) Is not labeled in accordance with the provisions of this chapter…

It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following: (a) Detach, alter, deface, or destroy any label, warning tag, or notice that is provided for in this chapter or in the regulations that are adopted pursuant to it, or alter or substitute seed, in a manner that may defeat t…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 52486, it is unlawful for any person to ship, deliver, transport, or sell agricultural or vegetable seed that is treated after harvest with any substance that is likely to be poisonous or toxic to human beings or animals unless there is…

It is unlawful for any person to sell or divert for use or for processing, either for human or animal consumption, any grain or other crop seed which is treated after harvest with any substance that is likely to be poisonous or toxic to human beings or animals, unless there is an…

Sections 52481, 52482, and 52484 of this article do not apply to any common carrier in respect to any seed which is transported or delivered for transportation in the ordinary course of its business as a carrier if such carrier is not engaged in conditioning or merchandising seed…

A violation of this chapter for having shipped, delivered, transported, or sold agricultural or vegetable seed that has false or misleading labeling shall be construed to have been committed at the time of discovery of the violation, and a complaint charging the violation shall b…

It is unlawful to violate any provisions of this chapter or any regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1051.)

It is unlawful for any person to violate the provisions of the United States Plant Variety Protection Act contained in Part J (commencing with Section 2531), Part K (commencing with Section 2541), or Part L (commencing with Section 2561) of Subchapter III of Chapter 57 of Title 7…

Upon the issuance of a marketing program for the written assent of producers, the director shall submit a copy of the marketing program in full to each of the producers of the commodity which is to be affected, or their duly authorized agent, within the proposed proration zone as…

A nonprofit cooperative association may assent on behalf of any of its members only if it is authorized so to do by an instrument in writing which is signed by the member. Such authority may be revoked as to him by any such member by an instrument in writing which is filed with t…

The director may at the time of mailing to producers a marketing program or amendments to it for written assent, establish a closing date after which assents will not be counted. If he does so, the closing date upon which assents are required to be postmarked in order to be count…

If the closing date is not established at the time assent forms are mailed to producers, and the director subsequently finds that because of the oncoming harvesting season or because of any other relevant reason it is desirable to fix a closing date for filing assents, he may do …

If the director finds that the marketing program has been assented to in writing by one of the following, he shall make the marketing program effective: (a) Not less than 65 percent of the producers in the proration zone that produced for market not less than 51 percent of the qu…

If the director makes a marketing program effective, he shall publish a notice of the effective date pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in the capital of the state and in such other localities as the director may prescribe, not less than five days prior to the effect…

A member of the marketing program committee, or the proration zone agent, shall not unduly influence producers in their choice either for or against the institution of a marketing program, or for or against the termination of such a marketing program. (Added by renumbering Sectio…

Each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions for prohibiting producers and handlers from engaging in the unlawful trade practices applicable to them that are set forth in Article 10 (commencing with Section 62091) of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1192…

Each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions whereby the director establishes minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producers for market milk in the various classes. The director shall establish the prices by designating them in the plan, or by adopting metho…

Any designation of a class 1 price by any method or formula that is used to develop class 1 prices paid to producers in the various marketing areas, shall provide, on a calendar year basis, a statewide weighted average minimum price level for a hundred weight of milk testing 3.5 …

The minimum prices otherwise established pursuant to this chapter shall be increased by any security charges that are imposed pursuant to Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 62500). (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 156, Sec. 24. Effective July 10, 1987.)

Subject to the provisions of Sections 62074 and 62075, each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions whereby the director shall provide methods for the establishment of minimum prices for market milk received within a marketing area regardless of whether the milk…

Each stabilization and marketing plan shall provide all of the following: (a) For the establishment of prices for market milk, whether or not such market milk is subsequently sold or distributed in another marketing area within this state where a stabilization and marketing plan …

No amendment of this article terminates or invalidates any provision of any stabilization and marketing plan which has been established by the director prior to the effective date of such amendment. Each such plan shall, however, be brought into conformity with such amendment at …

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the director, in establishing minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producers, for market milk in any marketing area, may establish, as the applicable minimum prices, those prices applicable within the marketing…

Each stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions which require handlers to report to each producer from whom market milk is secured all of the following: (a) The volume of market milk received from such producer in pounds of milk. (b) The milk fat, solids-not-fat, or …

Each stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions which authorize any handler that purchases market milk under contract from any producer to pool such market milk for producer payment purposes in accordance with such contracts, irrespective of whether such market milk …

The director may establish minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producer-handlers for milk not used by the purchasing handler as class 1 milk. These provisions may provide that the milk, if used in classes other than class 1 by the purchasing handler, may be paid for at the m…

Each stabilization and marketing plan may further provide for maximum charges for plant processing and transportation service on the market milk or market milk components which are transported to the area where sold. The stabilization and marketing plan may enumerate the applicab…

Each stabilization and marketing plan may provide for minimum charges for the various services performed or rendered by a nonprofit cooperative association in respect to class 1 market milk sold or delivered to another handler. Handler services include component testing for payme…

In establishing minimum handler service charges under Section 62071, the director shall take into consideration all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the following: (a) The reasonably necessary costs of providing such services, including overhead, as determined by …

If any contract between a handler and a producer for the purchase of any market milk provides that the charges for the hauling of it shall be paid, in whole or in part, by the producer, and such hauling is done by the handler either directly or through an agent or by any person t…