Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 105 - Agriculture Department
Chapter 1550 - FOOD; GENERAL RULES
Part 1550.0890 - DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS FOR FOOD

The definitions and interpretations of terms contained in Minnesota Statutes, sections 31.01 and 31.02, shall be applicable also to such terms when used in rules promulgated under the act. If a rule prescribing a definition and standard of identity for a food has been promulgated under Minnesota Statutes, sections 31.10 and 32.021, subdivision 2, and the name therein specified for the food is used in any other rule under Minnesota Statutes, sections 31.10 and 32.021, subdivision 2, or any other provision of the statute, such name means the food which conforms to such definition and standard, except as otherwise specifically provided in such other rule.

No provision of any rule prescribing a definition and standard of identity or standard of quality or fill of container under Minnesota Statutes, sections 31.10 and 32.021, subdivision 2, shall be construed as in any way affecting the concurrent applicability of the general provisions of the act and the rules thereunder relating to adulteration and misbranding. For example all rules under Minnesota Statutes, sections 31.10 and 32.021, subdivision 2, contemplate that the food and all articles used as components or ingredients thereof shall not be poisonous or deleterious and shall be clean, sound, and fit for food. A provision in such rules for the use of coloring or flavoring does not authorize such use under circumstances or in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed or whereby the food is made to appear better or of greater value than it is.

Statutory Authority: MS s 31.101