Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

31.021 DETERMINATION OF MISLEADING. If an article is alleged to be misbranded because the label is misleading, or if an advertisement is alleged to be false because it is misleading, then in determining whether the labeling or advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken int…

31.032 PENALTIES AND GUARANTY. § Subdivision 1.Misdemeanor. Any person who violates any of the provisions of section 31.02 is guilty of a misdemeanor. § Subd. 2.Exception. No person shall be subject to the penalties of subdivision 1 for having violated section 31.02, clause (2) o…

31.04 INSPECTION AUTHORITY. § Subdivision 1.Allowable actions. For purposes of enforcement of the Minnesota Food Law, the commissioner, or any of the commissioner's authorized agents, is authorized upon presenting appropriate credentials to the owner, operator or agent in charge:…

31.07 PRICE NOT COLLECTIBLE. No action shall be maintained for the purchase price or value of any food, the sale of which is now or hereafter prohibited by law or which is manufactured, used, sold, transported, kept or offered for sale, use, or transportation, or had in possessio…

31.08 ADDITIONAL POWERS AND AUTHORITY; FOOD IN TRANSIT. The commissioner or any of the commissioner's assistants, inspectors, agents, or employees, in addition to the authority and powers otherwise conferred by law, is authorized and empowered to have and to take access to any an…

31.09 COMMISSIONER TO RENDER CERTAIN FOOD UNSALABLE. The commissioner and the commissioner's assistants, inspectors, agents, and employees, shall also have power and authority, in their discretion, to render unsalable for use as food, any food the sale or use of which is now or h…

31.095 DENATURING AND LABELING. All food originally designated as food for human consumption which is diverted to animal food channels or to seed must be labeled in compliance with animal food or seed laws and rules, and any which has been embargoed pursuant to section 34A.11 mus…

31.10 STANDARDS, DEFINITIONS; PROMULGATION. For the purpose of preventing fraud and deception in the manufacture, use, sale, and transportation of food, or for the purpose of protecting and preserving the public health, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to fix, adopt, and …

31.101 RULES; HEARINGS; UNIFORMITY WITH FEDERAL LAW. § Subdivision 1.Authority. The commissioner may promulgate and amend rules for the efficient administration and enforcement of the Minnesota Food Law. The rules when applicable must conform, insofar as practicable and consisten…

31.102 DEFINITIONS, STANDARDS OF IDENTITY; TEMPORARY PERMITS. § Subdivision 1.Identity, quantity, and fill of container rules. Federal definitions and standards of identity, quality, and fill of container adopted under authority of the federal act, are the definitions and standar…

31.103 FAIR PACKAGING AND LABELING PROVISIONS. § Subdivision 1.Consumer commodities labeling rules. All labels of consumer commodities must conform with the requirements for the declaration of net quantity of contents of section 4 of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (United St…

31.104 FOOD LABELING EXEMPTION RULES. The commissioner shall promulgate rules exempting from any labeling requirement food which is, in accordance with the practice of the trade, to be processed, labeled, or repacked in substantial quantities at establishments other than those wh…

31.11 RULES. § Subdivision 1.Food laws. For the purpose of preventing fraud and deception in the manufacture, use, sale, and transportation of food, or for the purpose of protecting and preserving the public health, it shall also be the duty of the commissioner to make and publis…

31.115 LAWFUL TO PRODUCE BEVERAGES IN BASEMENTS OR OTHER SUBGRADE AREAS, USE BUILDINGS FOR OTHER PURPOSES. For the purposes of inspection, licensing, permitting, and registration by the commissioner of agriculture under Minnesota Rules, parts 1550.1650 to 1550.1870, it is lawful …

31.12 LABELING. For the purpose of preventing fraud and deception in the manufacture, use, sale, and transportation of food, or for the purpose of protecting and preserving the public health, it shall be the duty of the commissioner, by rulings not inconsistent with law, to requi…

31.121 FOOD ADULTERATION. A food shall be deemed to be adulterated if it is covered by section 34A.02. History: 1974 c 84 s 30; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1990 c 554 s 1; 1992 c 486 s 2; 2012 c 244 art 2 s 14

31.122 FOOD; TOLERANCES FOR ADDED POISONOUS INGREDIENTS. Any added poisonous or deleterious substance, any food additive, any pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity or any color additive, shall with respect to any particular use or intended use be deemed unsafe …

31.123 FOOD MISBRANDING. A food is misbranded if it is covered by section 34A.03. History: 1974 c 84 s 32; 1985 c 248 s 70; 2012 c 244 art 2 s 15

31.124 FALSE ADVERTISING. An advertisement of a food shall be deemed to be false if it is false or misleading in any particular. History: 1974 c 84 s 33

31.13 ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE. It shall be the duty of the laboratory director, managers, and analysts to make analyses and examinations of such articles as shall be furnished to them by the commissioner, for the purpose of determining from such examination whether such articles are a…

31.131 EMERGENCY PERMIT CONTROL. § Subdivision 1.Temporary conditional permits. Whenever the commissioner finds after investigation that the distribution in the state of Minnesota of any class of food may, by reason of contamination with microorganisms during manufacture, process…

31.132 PUBLICITY. § Subdivision 1.Reports. The commissioner may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing all judgments, decrees, and court orders which have been rendered under the Minnesota Food Law, including the nature of the charge and the disposition there…

31.15 DISPOSAL OF RECEIPTS. In all prosecutions under section 34A.04, save as therein specifically provided, the fine or fines collected by and under the same shall be forthwith transmitted by the officer collecting the same to the commissioner of management and budget, to the cr…

31.161 FOOD; INSANITARY CONDITIONS PROHIBITED. No person, firm, or corporation shall operate any bakery, confectionery, creamery, dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, laboratory, hotel, restaurant, cafe, dining room, eating house, fruit box, receptacle, fruit stand, or vehicle of any k…

31.165 REMOVAL OF INSANITARY CONDITIONS. If, in the opinion of the commissioner or the commissioner's assistant, inspector, or agent, after an investigation thereof, any bakery, confectionery, creamery, dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, laboratory, hotel, restaurant, cafe, dining ro…

31.171 EMPLOYMENT OF DISEASED PERSON. It shall be unlawful for any person to work in or about any place where any fruit or any food products are manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, produced or sold, whose condition is such that disease may be spread to a…

31.175 WATER, PLUMBING, AND SEWAGE. A person who is required by statutes administered by the Department of Agriculture, or by rules adopted pursuant to those statutes, to provide a suitable water supply, or plumbing or sewage disposal system shall not engage in the business of ma…

31.31 COMMERCIAL CANNERIES, REGULATION. All commercial canneries shall be under the supervision and regulation of the commissioner. For the purpose of sections 31.31 to 31.392, a commercial cannery is defined to mean any place or building where food is received in a raw or partly…

31.311 INSPECTION UNDER SUPERVISION OF COMMISSIONER. The inspection of commercial canneries shall be under the supervision of the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture. The commissioner shall appoint trained and qualified sanitarians who shall inspect commercial canneries…

31.32 REPORTS; INFORMATION FURNISHED. The commissioner shall issue public bulletins of information, report and publish the conditions found in canning factories, furnish and disseminate information regarding the canning industry, and for that purpose may arrange for educational e…

31.36 RULES FOR CANNERIES. The commissioner, in the manner provided by law, may prescribe rules for the operations of canneries, and proper labels, standards, and definitions of grades on products of canneries. History: (3840) 1921 c 495 s 51; 1961 c 144 art 4 s 2; 1985 c 248 s 7…

31.37 NOTICE OF INTENTION TO OPERATE. Any person owning or operating a canning factory shall, by written notice on or before June first, of each year, notify the commissioner whether or not such factory is to be operated during that season or year, giving kinds and varieties of p…

31.38 CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION, COMMERCIAL CANNERIES; LABELS, BRANDS. The commissioner shall furnish to each commercial cannery that shall have fully complied with the provisions of sections 31.31 to 31.392, a certificate of inspection that such cannery has been inspected and ha…

31.39 ASSESSMENTS; INSPECTION SERVICES; COMMERCIAL CANNERIES ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Assessments. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to collect from each commercial cannery an assessment for inspection and services furnished, and for maintaining a bacteriological…

31.392 CANNING IN DWELLING OR BASEMENT. No commercial canning of any food products shall be permitted in a house or dwelling or in the basement of any building. History: 1947 c 558 s 5

31.495 REGULATION OF FOOD SALVAGE OPERATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section, the terms defined in this subdivision have the meanings given them. (b) "Distressed food" means any food, the label of which has been lost, defaced, or obliterated, or…

31.51 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. For the purpose of sections 31.51 to 31.56, the terms defined in this section have the meanings ascribed to them. § Subd. 2.Slaughter house. "Slaughter house" means an establishment in which animals other than poultry are slaughtered, evi…

31.53 INSPECTIONS; CORRECTIVE ORDERS. The commissioner shall at such times as the commissioner deems necessary cause any plant processor or place of business where animal or poultry slaughtering, packing or processing occurs, to be inspected and shall make such order as is necess…

31.54 RULES. The commissioner may, in order to supplement federal regulation and inspection of any plant, processor or place of business, promulgate rules covering the construction and operation of such plants or processor, the water supply, sanitary conditions and disposal of se…

31.56 LIMITATION. § Subdivision 1.Farmer's own animals. Sections 31.51 to 31.56 do not apply to a farmer slaughtering the farmer's own rabbits or poultry on the farmer's own farm for: (1) personal use, (2) the use of the farmer's immediate family, or (3) sale directly to the ulti…

31.59 HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF LIVESTOCK; DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. For the purposes of sections 31.59 to 31.591, the following terms have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Slaughterer. "Slaughterer" means any person, partnership, corporation, or association regularly engag…

31.591 SLAUGHTER MUST BE HUMANE. After July 1, 1961, no slaughterer may slaughter livestock or handle livestock in connection with slaughter except by humane method. History: 1959 c 670 s 2

31.60 MEAT INDUSTRY DIVISION. § Subdivision 1.Division duties; director; personnel. A Meat Industry Division is created in the Department of Agriculture which shall enforce and administer laws enforced and administered by the commissioner of agriculture relating to meat, fish, an…

31.601 PROTECTION OF MEAT. Every dealer in meats, fish, fowl, or game for human food, at the place of offering or exposing for sale, and in the transportation of such food from place to place to customers, shall protect the same from dust, flies, and other vermin or substance whi…

31.602 SALE OF UNWHOLESOME POULTRY OR GAME. Every person who shall offer or expose for sale at retail, for human food, at any public market, store, shop, or house, or in or about any street or other public place, any domestic or wild fowls, or any slaughtered rabbits, squirrels, …

31.611 VEAL. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, the veal of calves killed when less than four weeks old. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less…