Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part XXXV - Agro-Consumer Services
Chapter 7 - Truth in Labeling of Food Products
Section XXXV-709 - Prohibitions

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XXXV-709

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall:

1. misbrand or misrepresent any food product as a covered agricultural product;

2. affix a label to any food product that is false or misleading;

3. Represent a food product as meat or a meat product unless the food product is derived from beef, pork, poultry, alligator, farm-raised deer, turtle, domestic rabbit, crawfish, or shrimp. This shall include representing a cell-cultured food product as a meat product;

4. Represent a food product as rice unless the food product is rice or derived from rice;
a. This shall include using the term "rice" in the name of the food product when the food product is not rice or derived from rice.

5. Represent a food product as beef or a beef product unless the food product is derived from a domesticated bovine;

6. Represent a food product as pork or a pork product unless the food product is derived from a domesticated swine;

7. Represent a food product as poultry or a poultry product unless the food product is derived from poultry, as defined in this Chapter.

8. Represent a food product as sugar unless the food product is an unaltered plant-based simple sugar or sucrose;

9. Utilize a term that is the same or deceptively similar to a term that has been used or defined historically in reference to another agricultural product.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 3:4741.

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