TITLE 2: NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION 5: ANIMALS, PLANTS AND FOOD
§ 5418. Labeling of Packaged Meat Products. (a) When any meat or meat food product prepared for export commerce which has been inspected as provided in 2 CMC § 5417 and marked “CommonwealthInspected and Passed” is placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in any establishment where inspection under this chapter is maintained, the person preparing the product shall cause a label to be attached to the can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering, under supervision of an inspector, which label shall state that the contents thereof have been inspected and passed under the provisions of this chapter. No inspection and examination of meat or meat food products deposited or enclosed in cans, tins, pots, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in any establishment where inspection under this chapter is maintained shall be deemed to be complete until such meat or meat food products have been sealed or enclosed in said can, tin, pot, canvas, or other receptacle or covering under the supervision of an inspector. (b) All carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products inspected at any establishment under the authority of this chapter and found to be unadulterated shall, at the time they leave the establishment, bear, in distinctly legible form, directly thereon or on their containers, as the director may require, the information required under 2 CMC § 5412(k). (c) The director may prescribe the styles and sizes of type to be used with respect to material required to be incorporated in labeling to avoid false or misleading labeling of any articles or animals subject to this chapter. (d) No article subject to this chapter may be sold or offered for sale by any person, in export commerce, under any name or other marking or labeling which is false or misleading, or in any container of a misleading form or size, but established trade names and other marking and labeling and containers which are not false or misleading and which are approved by the director are permitted. (e) If the director has reason to believe that any marking or labeling, or the size or form of any container in use or proposed for use with respect to any article subject to this chapter, is false or misleading in any particular, the director may direct that such use be withheld unless the marking, labeling, or container is modified in such manner as the director may prescribe so that it will not be false or misleading. If the person using or proposing to use the marking, labeling or container does not accept the determination of the director, such person may request a hearing, but the use of the marking, labeling, or container shall, if the director so directs, be withheld pending hearing and final determination by the director. Any such determination by the director shall be conclusive unless, within 30 days after receipt of notice of such final determination, the person adversely affected thereby appears before the Commonwealth Trial Court. Source: 25 TTC § 57. Commission Comment: With respect to the references to the “director” of the Department of Natural Resources, see Executive Order 94-3 (effective August 23, 1994), reorganizing the executive branch, changing agency names and official titles, and effecting other changes, set forth in the Commission comment to 1 CMC § 2001.
TITLE 2: NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION 5: ANIMALS, PLANTS AND FOOD Section 4 of PL 6-25, the “Commonwealth Judicial Reorganization Act of 1989,” provides that “[w]herever the term ‘Commonwealth Trial Court’ appears in the Commonwealth Code, it is henceforth to be interpreted and understood to refer to the Commonwealth Superior Court.”