Section 3. Prohibited acts.
The following acts are prohibited:
(1) Manufacture, sale, delivery, consignment, bailment,
holding or offering for sale of any food that is adulterated
or misbranded, except where a person in good faith delivers
or offers to deliver the food and furnishes shipping
documents to the secretary.
(2) Adulteration or misbranding of any food.
(3) Knowingly receiving in commerce any food which is
adulterated or misbranded and the delivery or proffered
delivery thereof for pay or otherwise.
(4) Sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale or
offering for sale any article in violation of section 11.
(5) Refusal to permit during normal business hours entry
to, inspection of or taking of a sample or access to or
copying of any record at a food establishment as authorized
under section 12(a)(2) and (3).
(6) Removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed food
article in violation of section 6.
(7) Alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration or
removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of a food or
the doing of any other act with respect to a food, if the act
is done while the food is held for sale and results in the
food being adulterated or misbranded.
(8) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, falsely
representing or using without proper authority any mark,
stamp, tag, label or other identification device authorized
or required by regulation promulgated under the provisions of
this act.
(9) Use by any person to his own advantage or revealing,
other than to the secretary or the courts when relevant in
any judicial proceeding under this act, of any information
acquired under authority of this act concerning any method or
process which, as a trade secret or confidential trade
information, is entitled to protection.
(10) Holding of any potentially hazardous food at unsafe
temperatures in violation of an applicable regulation issued
under this act.
(11) Failure to register with the department under the
provisions of section 14.
(12) Use of wording which incorrectly indicates or
implies that a label or product has received approval of the
department. A food establishment may not claim registration
either upon its label or package or otherwise, except as
provided in section 15.
(13) Sale of confectionery containing alcohol at a level
above one-half of one percent by volume.
(14) Failure by a carrier to make records showing the
movement in commerce of any food or the holding thereof
during or after the movement and the quantity, shipper and
consignee thereof available for one year after the initial
date of movement of the food in commerce.