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MN Stat § 29.201 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.201 — Buyers Of Domestic Fowl; Dealers' Registers.

29.201 BUYERS OF DOMESTIC FOWL; DEALERS' REGISTERS. Every person who engages in the business of buying chickens, turkeys, or other domestic fowl of any kind shall keep and maintain a complete record of all such transactions in a ledger or other suitable book of account permanently bound, which for the purposes of sections 29.201 to 29.205 shall be known as such dealer's register. In such register the buyer shall enter a complete record of each purchase of chickens, turkeys, or other domestic fowl, to which the buyer was a party; and shall show the name and address of the person from whom the same was bought, and, when the transaction is with a person other than a regular customer of the buyer from whom the buyer has made similar purchases within one year from the date of such transaction, the means by which the same were transported to the place of purchase, the type of conveyance, and if by truck or other motor vehicle the license number of such truck or motor vehicle, the date of such purchase, and the number, kind, species and a general description of all such chickens, turkeys, or other domestic fowl involved in such transaction. History:  (6240-19) 1927 c 319 s 1; 1943 c 102 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 29.203 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.203 — Register Prima Facie Evidence.

29.203 REGISTER PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE. Every register made or kept in compliance with the provisions of sections 29.201 to 29.205 shall be prima facie evidence of the truth and accuracy of the facts therein stated or appearing as required thereby. Every such register shall at all times be open to inspection and examination by any peace officer or any public official charged with the duty of law enforcement, as often as and when required. History:  (6240-20) 1927 c 319 s 2; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 29.205 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.205 — Failure To Keep Registers; False Entry Therein.

29.205 FAILURE TO KEEP REGISTERS; FALSE ENTRY THEREIN. Any person who fails to keep such record or causes to be entered or recorded any false, untruthful, deceptive, or misleading statement or data in any register required to be kept by sections 29.201 to 29.205, or who changes, alters, destroys, mutilates, injures, secretes, conceals, or withholds from inspection any such register, or any part thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. This misdemeanor shall be deemed separate, apart from, and in addition to, any other crime or offense against the law committed by such person in connection with such transaction. History:  (6240-21) 1927 c 319 s 3
MN Stat § 29.21 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.21 — Definitions.

29.21 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Person. The word "person" when used in sections 29.21 to 29.27 means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, and shall include any officer, employee, agent, trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof, provided that neither a producer of eggs when selling shell eggs produced on a farm occupied and cultivated by the producer, nor a hatchery which produces or purchases shell eggs solely for hatching shall be deemed a "person." Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 1996 c 310 s 1] Subd. 3. Department. The word "department" means the Department of Agriculture unless otherwise indicated. Subd. 4. Checks. "Checks" means eggs that have cracks or breaks in the shell but have intact shell membranes that do not leak. Subd. 5. Dirties. "Dirties" means eggs with adhering dirt, foreign material, prominent stains, or moderate stains covering more than 1/32 of the shell surface, if localized, or 1/16 of the shell surface, if scattered. Subd. 6. Egg handler. "Egg handler" means a person who buys, sells, transports, stores, processes, or in any other way receives or has shell eggs. This includes farmers who sell candled and graded eggs off their premises. Subd. 7. Grading. "Grading" means assigning an identifying classification to a group of eggs that demonstrates that those eggs have the same degree of quality. Subd. 8. Incubator rejects. "Incubator rejects" means eggs that have been subjected to incubation and have been removed during the hatching operation as infertile or otherwise unhatchable. Subd. 9. Leakers. "Leakers" means eggs that have a crack or break in the shell and shell membrane to the extent that the contents pass or are free to pass through the shell. Subd. 10. Loss. "Loss" means eggs that are unfit for human consumption because they are smashed, broken, leaking, overheated, frozen, contaminated, or incubator rejects, or because they contain bloody whites, large meat spots, a large quantity of blood, or other foreign material. Subd. 11. Restricted eggs. "Restricted eggs" means eggs that contain dirties, checks, leakers, inedibles, loss, and incubator rejects. History:  1957 c 819 s 1; 1961 c 113 s 1; 1961 c 406 s 1; 1967 c 141 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 179 s 1-8; 2013 c 125 art 1 s 15
MN Stat § 29.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.23 — Grading.

29.23 GRADING. Subdivision 1. Grades, weight classes and standards for quality. All eggs purchased on the basis of grade by the first licensed buyer shall be graded in accordance with grade and weight classes established by the commissioner. The commissioner shall establish, by rule, and from time to time, may amend or revise, grades, weight classes, and standards for quality. When grades, weight classes, and standards for quality have been fixed by the secretary of the Department of Agriculture of the United States, they must be accepted and published by the commissioner as definitions or standards for eggs in interstate and intrastate commerce. Subd. 2. Equipment. The commissioner shall also by rule provide for minimum plant and equipment requirements for candling, grading, handling and storing eggs, and shall define candling. Equipment in use by a wholesale food handler before July 1, 1991, that does not meet the design and fabrication requirements of this chapter may remain in use if it is in good repair, capable of being maintained in a sanitary condition, and capable of maintaining a temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) or less. Subd. 3. Egg temperature. Eggs must be held at a temperature not to exceed 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) after being received by the egg handler except for cleaning, sanitizing, grading, and further processing when they must immediately be placed under refrigeration that is maintained at 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) or below. Eggs offered for sale by a retail food handler must be held at a temperature not to exceed 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius). Shell eggs that have been frozen must not be offered for sale except as approved by the commissioner. Subd. 4. Vehicle temperature. A vehicle used to transport shell eggs from a warehouse, retail store, candling and grading facility, or egg holding facility must have an ambient air temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) or below. History:  1957 c 819 s 3; 1961 c 406 s 5; 1973 c 29 s 1; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1991 c 179 s 9; 1Sp2001 c 2 s 49-51; 2008 c 297 art 1 s 15; 2020 c 89 art 4 s 21
MN Stat § 29.235 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.235 — Sale Of Shell Eggs.

29.235 SALE OF SHELL EGGS. Subdivision 1. Restriction. Checks and dirties must not be sold for human consumption as shell eggs, but may be sold as such to be processed for human consumption by a processor licensed by the commissioner to break eggs for resale, except that a producer may sell such shell eggs of the producer's own production on the producer's premises directly to a household consumer for the consumer's own personal use. Subd. 2. Package label. All eggs offered for sale in cartons, boxes or cases, racks, or other packaging materials must contain the statement: "Perishable. Keep Refrigerated." History:  1969 c 231 s 3; 1983 c 300 s 5; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 179 s 10
MN Stat § 29.236 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.236 — Eggs In Uncooked Or Undercooked Foods.

29.236 EGGS IN UNCOOKED OR UNDERCOOKED FOODS. Pasteurized eggs must be used in uncooked or undercooked food or food containing unpasteurized eggs must be processed under a method approved by the commissioner sufficient to destroy the pathogen salmonella. This section does not exclude the use of shell eggs certified free of pathogens by a process or mechanism approved by the commissioner. History:   1991 c 179 s 11
MN Stat § 29.237 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.237 — Uniformity With Federal Law.

29.237 UNIFORMITY WITH FEDERAL LAW. Subdivision 1. Shell eggs. Federal regulations governing the grading of shell eggs and United States standards, grades, and weight classes for shell eggs, in effect on July 1, 2000, as provided by Code of Federal Regulations, title 7, part 56, are the grading and candling rules in this state, subject to amendment by the commissioner under chapter 14, the Administrative Procedure Act. Subd. 2. Inspection. Federal regulations governing the inspection of eggs and egg products, in effect on May 1, 2000, as provided by Code of Federal Regulations, title 7, part 59, are the inspection of egg and egg products rules in this state, subject to amendment by the commissioner under chapter 14, the Administrative Procedure Act. History:  1991 c 179 s 12; 1Sp2001 c 2 s 52
MN Stat § 29.24 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.24 — Adulterated Or Inedible Eggs, Sale Forbidden.

29.24 ADULTERATED OR INEDIBLE EGGS, SALE FORBIDDEN. No person shall buy, sell, offer or expose for sale, or possess for sale, eggs for human consumption that are inedible or adulterated. Eggs that are filthy, putrid, decomposed, or otherwise unfit for food in whole or in part, shall be deemed to be adulterated. Eggs which contain black rots, white rots, mixed rots (addled eggs), sour eggs with green whites, eggs with stuck yolks, moldy eggs, musty eggs, eggs showing blood rings, eggs containing embryo chicks (at or beyond the blood ring stage), or any other eggs that are filthy, decomposed, or putrid shall be deemed to be inedible. History:  1957 c 819 s 4; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 29.25 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.25 — Dockage; Overgrade Or Undergrade Of Eggs; Records Of Sales And Purchases.

29.25 DOCKAGE; OVERGRADE OR UNDERGRADE OF EGGS; RECORDS OF SALES AND PURCHASES. No person in buying or selling eggs shall take or give a greater or lesser dockage for eggs unfit for human food, as herein defined, than the actual dockage as determined by the correct candling of the eggs purchased or sold. No person in buying or selling eggs shall overgrade or undergrade eggs. All licensed persons shall keep such candling and grading records of eggs purchased or sold as may be required by the rules promulgated by the commissioner, which records shall be available at all reasonable times for inspection and examination by the commissioner, inspector or employees of the Department of Agriculture. History:  1957 c 819 s 5; 1961 c 113 s 1; 1985 c 248 s 70
MN Stat § 29.26 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.26 — Eggs In Possession Of Retailer.

29.26 EGGS IN POSSESSION OF RETAILER. All eggs sold or offered for sale at retail must have been candled and graded and must be clearly labeled according to Minnesota consumer grades as established by rule under section 29.23. No eggs shall be sold or offered for sale as "ungraded," "unclassified," or by any other name that does not clearly designate the grade. All eggs in possession of the retailer, either in temporary storage or on display, must be held at a temperature not to exceed 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius). Grade AA eggs held 31 days past the coded pack date for Grade AA eggs, or Grade A eggs held 46 days past the coded pack date for Grade A eggs, lose their grades and must be removed from sale. History:  1957 c 819 s 6; 1961 c 406 s 6; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1991 c 179 s 13; 2019 c 38 s 15
MN Stat § 29.27 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs|Section 29.27 — Rules.

29.27 RULES. The department may supervise, regulate, and, in the manner provided by law make reasonable rules relative to grading, candling, cleaning, breaking, purchasing, and selling of eggs and egg products for purpose of preserving and protecting the public health. In addition hereto, it is the express purpose herein that inasmuch as the breaking of eggs for resale is a matter of state concern, the surroundings in which such product is handled must be maintained in a sanitary condition, and, therefore, the department may establish, in the manner provided by law, reasonable rules relative to the inspection of all establishments wherein the business of breaking eggs for resale is maintained, and when the sanitary conditions of any such establishment are such that the product is rendered, or is likely to be rendered, unclean, unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human consumption, it may revoke such license to break eggs for resale until such time as the department is satisfied that the establishment is maintained in a sanitary condition. The department shall have the right, from time to time, to adopt rules in the same manner as herein set forth. All liquid, frozen or dried egg products sold or offered for sale shall be processed under continuous supervision of an inspector of the department or of the United States Department of Agriculture. History:  1957 c 819 s 7; 1961 c 110 s 1; 1963 c 286 s 1; 1969 c 231 s 2; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1991 c 179 s 14
MN Stat § 30.001 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 30 — Wild Rice|Section 30.001 — Definition.

30.001 DEFINITION. Subdivision 1. Scope. Except where the context otherwise indicates, for the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. Subd. 2. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture. History:  1961 c 113 s 1; 1961 c 128 s 13
MN Stat § 30.002 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 30 — Wild Rice|Section 30.002 — Enforcement.

30.002 ENFORCEMENT. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to enforce the provisions of this chapter. History:  (3945-11, 3945-18, 3945-18i, 3945-22) 1931 c 70 s 11; 1933 c 420 s 2; Ex1933 c 41 s 4; 1935 c 164 s 8; 1937 c 282 s 5
MN Stat § 31.001 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.001 — Citation.

31.001 CITATION. This chapter may be cited as the "Minnesota Food Law." History:   1974 c 84 s 1
MN Stat § 31.002 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.002 — Policy.

31.002 POLICY. It is the policy of this state to seek to achieve and maintain uniformity with the federal government and with other states insofar as possible, of regulation and control of the manufacture, distribution and sale of food in this state. To that end it is desirable and necessary that federal regulations adopted under authority of the federal act become state rules, and such rules shall be promulgated pursuant to state law. History:  1974 c 84 s 2; 1985 c 248 s 70
MN Stat § 31.021 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.021 — Determination Of Misleading.

31.021 DETERMINATION OF MISLEADING. If an article is alleged to be misbranded because the label is misleading, or if an advertisement is alleged to be false because it is misleading, then in determining whether the labeling or advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account, among other things, not only representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, sound, or in any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the labeling or advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the article to which the labeling or advertisement relates under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling or advertisement thereof or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual. History:   1974 c 84 s 20
MN Stat § 31.032 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.032 — Penalties And Guaranty.

31.032 PENALTIES AND GUARANTY. Subdivision 1. Misdemeanor. Any person who violates any of the provisions of section 31.02 is guilty of a misdemeanor. Subd. 2. Exception. No person shall be subject to the penalties of subdivision 1 for having violated section 31.02, clause (2) or (4), if the person establishes a guaranty or undertaking signed by, and containing the name and address of, the person residing in the state of Minnesota from whom the person received in good faith the article, to the effect that such article is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the Minnesota Food Law. Subd. 3. Publisher, broadcaster, agency. No publisher, radio broadcast licensee, or agency or medium for the dissemination of an advertisement, except the manufacturer, packer, distributor, or seller of the article to which a false advertisement relates, shall be liable under this section for the dissemination of such false advertisement. History:  1974 c 84 s 22; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 31.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.07 — Price Not Collectible.

31.07 PRICE NOT COLLECTIBLE. No action shall be maintained for the purchase price or value of any food, the sale of which is now or hereafter prohibited by law or which is manufactured, used, sold, transported, kept or offered for sale, use, or transportation, or had in possession with intent to sell, use, or transport in violation of any law now or hereafter enacted; nor shall any person be liable for the price or value of food or board furnished in violation of any such law. History:  (3801) 1921 c 495 s 12; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 5
MN Stat § 31.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.09 — Commissioner To Render Certain Food Unsalable.

31.09 COMMISSIONER TO RENDER CERTAIN FOOD UNSALABLE. The commissioner and the commissioner's assistants, inspectors, agents, and employees, shall also have power and authority, in their discretion, to render unsalable for use as food, any food the sale or use of which is now or hereafter prohibited by law, or which is manufactured, sold, used, transported, offered for sale or transportation, or had in possession with intent to use, sell, or transport in violation of any provision thereof, or in violation of any provision of any rule, definition, standard, or ruling made, adopted, and published thereunder, and the commissioner and assistants, inspectors, agents, and employees shall be exempt from liability for any such action. The test of the condition of any such food shall be its condition at the time of discovery. Any reasonable and necessary means may be adopted for rendering such food unsalable for use as food. History:  (3803) 1921 c 495 s 14; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 7; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 31.095 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.095 — Denaturing And Labeling.

31.095 DENATURING AND LABELING. All food originally designated as food for human consumption which is diverted to animal food channels or to seed must be labeled in compliance with animal food or seed laws and rules, and any which has been embargoed pursuant to section 34A.11 must be denatured in a manner approved by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. History:  1980 c 442 s 2; 1981 c 261 s 3; 1985 c 248 s 70; 2013 c 125 art 1 s 18
MN Stat § 31.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.10 — Standards, Definitions; Promulgation.

31.10 STANDARDS, DEFINITIONS; PROMULGATION. For the purpose of preventing fraud and deception in the manufacture, use, sale, and transportation of food, or for the purpose of protecting and preserving the public health, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to fix, adopt, and publish, from time to time, by rulings, in writing, definitions and standards of quality, purity, identity, composition, analysis, content and strength of articles of food, for which no definitions and standards are prescribed by law, and such definitions and standards so fixed, adopted, and published by the commissioner shall be the lawful definitions and standards thereof before all courts; provided that when definitions and standards have been or may be fixed by the secretary of the Department of Agriculture, or the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States, except in cases where definitions or standards otherwise are prescribed by law, they may be accepted by the commissioner and if accepted, published as definitions or standards for Minnesota. All definitions and standards promulgated and adopted by the commissioner shall be done in the manner provided by law. Until such definitions and standards are promulgated and adopted in the manner stated, the definitions and standards heretofore prescribed by law or promulgated and adopted by the commissioner shall remain in full force and effect, except as otherwise prescribed by law. Any person who shall manufacture, use, sell, transport, package, offer for sale or transportation, or have in possession with the intent to sell, package, repackage, offer for sale or transportation, or use, or transport, any article of food, which does not conform to such definitions or standards so fixed, adopted, and published, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History:  (3804) 1921 c 495 s 15; 1953 c 518 s 2; 1955 c 538 s 4; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 8; 1983 c 300 s 7; 1985 c 248 s 70
MN Stat § 31.102 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 31 — Food|Section 31.102 — Definitions, Standards Of Identity; Temporary Permits.

31.102 DEFINITIONS, STANDARDS OF IDENTITY; TEMPORARY PERMITS. Subdivision 1. Identity, quantity, and fill of container rules. Federal definitions and standards of identity, quality, and fill of container adopted under authority of the federal act, are the definitions and standards of identity, quality, and fill of container in this state. The rules may be amended by the commissioner under chapter 14. Subd. 2. Temporary permits. The commissioner may issue temporary permits for intrastate shipment of experimental packs of food. Such permits shall specify the conditions and terms of shipment, and the conditions may be at variance from the requirements of the rules relating to definitions and standards of identity as provided for in subdivision 1 when necessary to the completion or conclusiveness of an otherwise adequate investigation and where the interests of consumers are safeguarded. Rules relating to the issuance of such permits may be promulgated by the commissioner. History:  1974 c 84 s 27; 1975 c 412 s 15; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1989 c 350 art 11 s 2; 1994 c 571 s 2; 1997 c 220 s 2; 2000 c 477 s 28; 2002 c 373 s 19; 2003 c 107 s 13