(1) If the department has reasonable cause to believe that a food processing plant, retail or food establishment is offering for sale or selling a food product that is misbranded as a meat product in violation of Section 75-36-5, the department shall issue a stop order. Upon being issued the stop order, the food processing plant, retail or food establishment shall not offer for sale or sell the food product until the department determines that the food product is or is not misbranded as a meat product.
(2) The department may require that the food product be held by the food processing plant, retail or food establishment and be secured from purchase.
(3) If the department determines that the food product being offered for sale or sold by a food processing plant, retail or food establishment is misbranded as a meat product, the department may issue an embargo order requiring the food processing plant, retail or food establishment to dispose of the misbranded meat product other than by sale to purchasers in this state.
(4) Upon notification of the violation by the department, the Attorney General shall enforce the stop order or embargo order by petitioning the chancery court of the county where the violation occurred.