Alabama Administrative Code
Title 80 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
Chapter 80-1-1 - BULK SALES OF MEAT
Section 80-1-1-.01 - Bait Advertisement Prohibited
Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 11, August 30, 2024
The following bait advertisement and bait and switch selling practices in the advertising, offering for sale or selling of any wholesale or bulk cut of meat to induce the sale of said meat are prohibited:
(a) Disparaging or degrading any meat advertised or offered for sale by the seller in order to induce the purchase of another product or different grade of the same product or representing that a product is for sale when such representation is used primarily to sell another product;
(b) Substituting any meat or meat product for that ordered by the buyer without the buyer's consent;
(c) Failing to have available a sufficient quantity of any meat product represented as being for sale to meet reasonable anticipated demands, unless the available amount is disclosed fully and conspicuously;
(d) Switching or changing grades or parts or cuts of meats from the kind advertised, offered for sale or purchased;
(e) Advertising a grade intended for steaks and roasts that is below the grade commonly used for that purpose by retail markets in Alabama or if the grade advertised is inappropriate or inadequately designates the grade that should be used for steaks and roasts.
Author: Charles H. Barnes
Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 2-2-16, 20-1-2.
