Title 21, Title 21 and Drugs

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all shipments, packages, containers, or displays in which potatoes are packed, distributed, sold, or offered or exposed for sale except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

The United States grades for potatoes as promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture are made the official grades for purposes of this chapter.

Every shipment, package, or container, containing potatoes which are packed, sold, distributed, or offered or exposed for sale or distribution in the state by any person shall be plainly and conspicuously marked with the name and address of the packer, or the person by whose auth…

All potatoes intended for sale to a processing plant or to a first receiver who normally grades them into proper grades before reselling them shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter until they are offered for resale. All ungraded potatoes shipped under this provision …

All radio, newspaper, or display advertising of potatoes must state the grade or grades of potatoes being advertised.

The director of environmental management shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and shall make suitable regulations to carry out the administration and enforcement. The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum that it may deem necessary to carry ou…

When the director of environmental management learns of any violation of any provisions of this chapter, he or she may cause notice of the violation, together with the copy of his or her findings, to be given to the person or persons concerned. Persons notified may be given a hea…

Any person, firm, or corporation, which by itself or its agents or employees, violates any provisions of this chapter, or any regulation made under this chapter, or fails to comply with any of the requirements of this chapter or knowingly misrepresents the grade of any potatoes, …

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, or corporation to sell at retail or offer to sell at retail any lima, fava, shell, wax, or green snap beans, peas, spinach, kale, dandelions, and potatoes, and any other vegetables of the commonly accepted staple classes as …

Every person, firm, partnership, or corporation violating § 21-20-1 shall be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) and not more than fifty dollars ($50.00), one-half (½) of the fine to the use of the city or town where the offense was committed and one-half (½) of the fine …

The enforcement of §§ 21-20-1 and 21-20-2 shall be under the jurisdiction of the director of environmental management.

Nuts and shelled beans and all kinds of berries, whenever sold by measure, shall be sold by dry measure. And any person who shall sell any nuts or shelled beans or any kind of berries by any measure other than dry measure shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars ($20.00), one-…

The director of environmental management is authorized and instructed to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations relative to grading, marking, labeling, packing, and branding of products of the farm. Any fruit or vegetable offered or exposed for sale or distribution in a clos…

Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any provision of § 21-20-5 or any rule or regulation of the director of environmental management made pursuant to that section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred do…

When products are grown or produced on a Rhode Island farm and sold or offered for sale at the farm, roadside stands, farmers markets or pick-your-own operations located in Rhode Island, the products may be sold or offered for sale by weight, dry measure or count, provided, that …

The capacity of every farm milk holding tank (when used as a measure) shall be calibrated, tested, and sealed by the director of labor and training. The fee for this calibration shall be five dollars ($5.00) plus a fee of one-half cent ($0.005) per gallon for its determined total…

It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense for any person to tamper with or alter in any way the gauging mechanism of a farm milk holding tank.

Every farm milk holding tank (when used as a measure) shall be recalibrated at least once every three (3) years. Following the calibration, testing, and sealing as set forth in § 21-2.1-1, the state sealer of weights and measures of the department of labor and training shall issu…

“Olive oil,” means the pale yellowish or yellowish green nondrying oil expressed from ripe olives and used or sold or offered for sale as a salad oil, in cooking, or as a lubricant or in illumination.

Olive oil, when it has been mixed or packed with cotton seed oil or other substance, shall not be sold or offered for sale under the name of “Pure olive oil.”

Every person, firm, or corporation who as principal or by servant or agent shall have in his or her or its possession or who shall pack, label, and distribute to be sold or shall offer for sale any can, jar, package, or other container which is stamped or labeled or which is caus…

It shall be the duty of the department of health to prosecute any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter.

The director of health or the director’s officer or agent may enter any place where olive oil is packed, labeled, distributed, or offered for sale for the purpose of examining into any suspected violation of §§ 21-21-2 and 21-21-3; and whenever the director has reason to believe …

Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the sale of olive oil, which has been mixed with cotton seed oil or other substance when the can, jar, package, or container in which the mixed olive oil is so stamped or labeled.

No person shall by himself or herself, his or her servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sell, exchange, or have in his or her custody or possession, with intent to sell or exchange, or expose or offer for sale or exchange, any adulterated vinegar, or l…

All vinegars shall be without artificial coloring matter, and shall contain not less than four grams (4 gs.) of acetic acid in one hundred grams (100 gs.) of the vinegar. Cider vinegar shall contain in addition to four grams (4 gs.) of acetic acid not less than one and six-tenths…

All vinegars shall be without any metallic salts of arsenic, lead, copper, tin, or zinc, or any sulphuric, hydrochloric, nitric, or other mineral acid injurious to health; and if any vinegar contains any metallic salts of arsenic, lead, copper, tin, or zinc, or any sulphuric, hyd…

It shall be the duty of the director of health to make complaint for all violations of this chapter, and the director shall not be required to give surety for costs.

Every duly authorized agent of the department of health may enter any place where vinegar is stored or kept for sale, and examine all carriages used in the conveyance of vinegar; and whenever the agent has reason to believe any vinegar found by him or her is adulterated, the agen…

Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in chapters 1, 17, 23, and 30 of this title for like offenses.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to manufacture or bottle for sale or to sell or offer for sale any carbonated or nonalcoholic beverage, soda water, fruit juice, syrup, bottled drinking water either plain or carbonated, or any other so-called soft drink, …

Blank forms of the application for permits shall be furnished by the department without cost. The fee for the permit shall be as set forth in § 23-1-54. The fee for a permit to manufacture or bottle apple cider shall also be as set forth in § 23-1-54. In order to set the license …

Permits granted under this chapter may be suspended or revoked by the department of health for violation of any provision of this chapter or the regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter or of chapter 27 of this title or chapter 31 of this title.

All nonalcoholic beverage, drink, or juice regulations and any amendments to them adopted pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., are the bottled beverage regulations in this state. The department may, by regulation, provide for modification …

Whoever by himself or herself or by his or her servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, firm, or corporation having custody of a reusable jar, bottle, measure, or other vessel used as a container for any carbonated or nonalcoholic beverage, soda water, fr…

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to dealers at retail who purchase from the bottler of any carbonated or nonalcoholic beverage, soda water, fruit juice, bottled drinking water either plain or carbonated, or any other so-called soft drink.

It shall be the duty of the department of health to make at least quarterly inspections of all places or premises for which permits are issued and a report kept on file at the office of the department of health as to the sanitary condition maintained by the bottler. The departmen…

(a) “Department” means the department of health. (b) “Director” means the director of health. (c) “Person” means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, or any group of persons whether incorporated or not, engaged in the commer…

All bakery products, cereal flours, and related products regulations and any amendments to them adopted by the federal government pursuant to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, CFR 21, Parts 136, entitled “Bakery Products,” and 137, entitled “Cereal Flours and Related Products,” a…

Nothing in this chapter or the regulations adopted or in effect pursuant to this chapter shall supersede the provisions of chapter 25 of this title as it relates to “Rhode Island corn” and corn meal made from Rhode Island corn.

Enforcement of this chapter shall be in accordance with the provisions of §§ 23-1-20 — 23-1-24.

For the purpose of enforcement of this chapter and the regulations in effect or adopted pursuant to this chapter, the director, or the officers or employees under his or her supervision as he or she may designate, is authorized to take samples for analysis and to conduct examinat…

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or the orders, rules, or regulations promulgated by the director under authority of this chapter shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 1 of title 23 pertaining to violation of laws administered by the director …

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sums that it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the sum, or so much of it as…

If any provision of this chapter or of any rule or regulation made pursuant to this chapter or the application of it to any person or circumstances is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the chapter, rule, or regulation, and the application of the …

Within the meaning of this chapter “Rhode Island corn” means corn of a light amber color, hard and sound of kernel, generally known as Rhode Island white cap corn and grown in the soil of Rhode Island within the state of Rhode Island.