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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 416 - Department of Consumer Protection › Section 21a-12c. - Infant formula and baby food receptacles containing bisphenol-A: Prohibition; existing inventory; enforcement.

(a) For the purposes of this section, (1) “infant formula” means a milk-based or soy-based powder, concentrated liquid or ready-to-feed substitute for human breast milk, that is intended for infant consumption and is commercially available, and (2) “baby food” means a prepared solid food consisting of a soft paste or an easily chewed food that is intended for consumption by children two years of age or younger and is commercially available.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, on and after October 1, 2011, no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale or distribute in this state any infant formula or baby food that is stored in a plastic container, jar or can that contains bisphenol-A.
(c) A person may sell or distribute his or her existing inventory of infant formula or baby food containers, jars or cans containing bisphenol-A as of October 1, 2011, until October 1, 2012, provided such person can demonstrate that such containers, jars or cans were purchased or acquired prior to October 1, 2011, in a quantity comparable to the containers, jars or cans purchased or acquired during the same period of the prior year.
(d) The provisions of this section may be enforced, within available appropriations, by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection.
(P.A. 09-103, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 09-103 effective October 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 416 - Department of Consumer Protection › Section 21a-12d. - Children's jewelry containing cadmium: Prohibition; enforcement.

(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Cadmium” means elemental cadmium and any compounds or alloys which contain cadmium; and
(2) “Children's jewelry” means any jewelry, including charms, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, earrings or rings, and any component thereof, that is designed or intended to be worn or used by children twelve years of age or younger.
(b) On and after July 1, 2016, no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale or distribute in this state any children's jewelry that contains cadmium at more than .0075 per cent by weight.
(c) The provisions of this section may be enforced, within available appropriations, by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection.
(P.A. 10-113, S. 1; P.A. 14-140, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 10-113 effective October 1, 2012; P.A. 14-140 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting exception re Subsec. (c) and changing “July 1, 2014” to “July 1, 2016”, effective June 6, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 416 - Department of Consumer Protection › Section 21a-12e. - Thermal receipt paper containing bisphenol-A: Prohibition; enforcement.

(a) For the purposes of this section, “thermal receipt paper” or “cash register receipt paper” means any paper that is used by a commercial entity to issue a mechanically produced record of a commercial transaction.
(b) On and after October 1, 2013, no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale or distribute in this state any thermal receipt paper or cash register receipt paper that contains bisphenol-A.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, if the United States Environmental Protection Agency does not identify a safe, commercially available alternative to the use of bisphenol-A in thermal receipt paper or cash register receipt paper on or before June 30, 2013, no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale or distribute in this state any thermal receipt paper or cash register receipt paper that contains bisphenol-A on and after July 1, 2015.
(d) The provisions of this section may be enforced, within available appropriations, by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection.
(P.A. 11-222, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 11-222 effective October 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 416 - Department of Consumer Protection › Section 21a-12f. - Program for collection and disposal of unwanted pharmaceuticals. Public awareness campaign. Regulations.

(a) The Department of Consumer Protection shall, in consultation with the Connecticut Pharmacists Association and the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, develop and implement a program for the collection and disposal of unwanted pharmaceuticals. Such program shall provide for (1) a secure locked box that is accessible to the public on a twenty-four-hour daily basis for the anonymous drop-off of unwanted pharmaceuticals at each municipal police station, and (2) the transport of such pharmaceuticals to an appropriate facility for witnessed incineration.
(b) The Department of Consumer Protection shall, within available appropriations, organize a public awareness campaign to educate the public concerning the dangers of unsafe disposal of pharmaceuticals and of the availability of the pharmaceutical collection and disposal program at municipal police stations.
(c) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to implement the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 14-217, S. 131.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 416 - Department of Consumer Protection › Section 21a-12g. - Documents re safe storage of prescription drugs, cannabis and cannabis products. Publication.

Not later than December 1, 2022, the Department of Consumer Protection shall develop documents concerning the safe storage by consumers of (1) prescription drugs, as defined in section 19a-754b, and (2) cannabis, as defined in section 21a-420, and cannabis products, as defined in section 21a-420. Such documents shall contain, but need not be limited to, information concerning best practices for (A) storing prescription drugs and cannabis and cannabis products in a manner that renders such items inaccessible to children, and (B) disposal of unused and expired prescription drugs and cannabis and cannabis products. Not later than December 15, 2022, the department shall publish such documents on its Internet web site.
(P.A. 22-81, S. 18.)
History: P.A. 22-81 effective July 1, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-13. (Formerly Sec. 19-171a). - Powers concerning kosher food.

Section 21a-13 is repealed, effective July 1, 2016.
(1959, P.A. 412, S. 29; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 16-117, S. 7.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-14. (Formerly Sec. 19-172). - Oleomargarine.

Any article resembling butter and not made wholly from milk or any product of milk, salt and coloring excepted, shall be oleomargarine or margarine within the meaning of this chapter. The term “oleomargarine” and the term “margarine” shall include butterine and any article made or compounded in imitation of butter or as a substitute for butter and not made exclusively from milk or any product thereof, salt and coloring excepted, and any article labeled or branded as oleomargarine or margarine. The term “butter”, “dairy” or “creamery” or the name or term of any breed of cattle or any combination of any such names or terms or any symbol thereof or picture of dairy scenes shall not be used in whole or in part upon or to form the name of any oleomargarine or margarine, or upon any box, tub or package containing oleomargarine or margarine, or in any advertising of oleomargarine or margarine.
(1949 Rev., S. 3885; 1949, 1951, S. 2071d.)
History: Sec. 19-172 transferred to Sec. 21a-14 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-15. (Formerly Sec. 19-173). - Definition of colored oleomargarine.

For the purpose of sections 21a-16 and 21a-17, colored oleomargarine or colored margarine is oleomargarine or margarine having a tint or shade containing more than one and six-tenths degrees of yellow, or of yellow and red collectively, but with an excess of yellow over red measured in terms of Lovibond tintometer scale or its equivalent.
(1953, S. 2075d.)
History: Sec. 19-173 transferred to Sec. 21a-15 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-16. (Formerly Sec. 19-174). - Sale of oleomargarine. Label.

(a) No person shall sell or offer for sale colored oleomargarine or colored margarine unless (1) such oleomargarine or margarine is packaged; (2) the net weight of the contents of any package sold at retail is one pound or less; (3) there appears on the label of the package the word “oleomargarine” or “margarine”, in type or lettering at least as large as any other type or lettering on such label, and an accurate statement of all optional ingredients contained in such oleomargarine or margarine; and (4) each separate part of the contents of the package is contained in a wrapper which bears the word “oleomargarine” or “margarine” in type or lettering not smaller than twenty-point type.
(b) No person shall sell or offer for sale any colored or uncolored oleomargarine or margarine in any manner other than by weight nor unless (1) the front of the package bears a definite statement of its true net weight; (2) the package is clearly labeled to indicate to the purchaser that the product is margarine or oleomargarine; and (3) the package bears the name and address of the manufacturer, packer or distributor, and any other information required by federal law.
(1949 Rev., S. 3887; 1951, S. 854b; 1953, S. 2073d; P.A. 07-217, S. 91.)
History: Sec. 19-174 transferred to Sec. 21a-16 in 1983; P.A. 07-217 made technical changes, effective July 12, 2007.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-17. (Formerly Sec. 19-175). - Serving of colored oleomargarine in public eating places.

No person shall serve colored oleomargarine or colored margarine at a public eating place unless a notice that oleomargarine or margarine is served is displayed prominently and conspicuously in such place and in such manner as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual being served in such eating place or is printed or otherwise set forth on the menu in type or lettering not smaller than that normally used to designate the serving of other food items or each separate serving is accompanied by labeling identifying it as oleomargarine or margarine or each separate serving thereof is triangular in shape. No person shall serve colored oleomargarine or colored margarine as a spread or in melted form as a substitute for butter unless menus or other forms of notice are made indicating that oleomargarine or margarine is being served.
(1949 Rev., S. 3889; 1951, S. 856b; 1953, S. 2074d; P.A. 78-98.)
History: P.A. 78-98 removed distinction made in previous provisions between possession of oleomargarine “in a form ready for serving” and actual serving of oleomargarine (before amendment, “possession” was allowed only if notice was posted or menus bore printed message that margarine was served whereas actual serving was allowed if serving were labeled as margarine or were triangular in shape) and removed definition of “possess in a form ready for serving”; Sec. 19-175 transferred to Sec. 21a-17 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-18. (Formerly Sec. 19-176). - License to manufacture or sell renovated butter.

Section 21a-18 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 3886; 1949, 1953, S. 2072d; P.A. 94-36, S. 24, 42; P.A. 96-259, S. 20.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-19. (Formerly Sec. 19-177). - Penalty.

Any person violating any provision of sections 21a-14 to 21a-17, inclusive, shall (1) for a first offense, be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars, and (2) for any subsequent offense, be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
(1953, S. 2076d; P.A. 96-259, S. 9; P.A. 12-80, S. 146.)
History: Sec. 19-177 transferred to Sec. 21a-19 in 1983; P.A. 96-259 deleted reference to Sec. 21a-18, which was repealed by the same act, from list of applicable sections; P.A. 12-80 rephrased provisions, inserted Subdiv. designators (1) and (2), changed penalty for first offense from a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 60 days or both to a fine of not more than $250 and changed penalty for subsequent offense from a fine of not more than $200 or imprisonment of not more than 4 months or both to a class C misdemeanor.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-20. (Formerly Sec. 19-178). - Renovated or process butter.

No person, by himself or agent, or otherwise, shall sell, expose for sale or have in his possession with intent to sell, any article which is produced by taking original packing stock or other butter, or both, melting the same so that the butter fat can be drawn off, and mixing such butter fat with skim milk, cream or other milk product, and rechurning the mixture, or by any similar process, and which is commonly known as process butter, unless he has the words “Renovated Butter” conspicuously stamped, labeled or marked, in a straight line in printed letters, not less than one-half inch in length of plain Gothic type, so that said words cannot be easily defaced, upon the top, side and bottom of every tub, firkin, box or package containing such article or compound. The seller at retail of such article or compound, which is not in the original package, shall, himself or by his agent, attach to each package sold and deliver therewith to the purchaser a label or wrapper bearing in a conspicuous place upon the outside of the package, the words “Renovated Butter” in printed letters not less than one-half inch in length in a straight line of plain Gothic type. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. The manufacture, sale and use of renovated butter shall be regulated by the use of such signs as are prescribed for the use and sale of oleomargarine in sections 21a-16 and 21a-17, but the words “Renovated Butter” shall be substituted for the word “Oleomargarine”.
(1949 Rev., S. 3891.)
History: Sec. 19-178 transferred to Sec. 21a-20 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-21. (Formerly Sec. 19-179). - Print butter.

No person shall, by himself, his servant or agent, sell or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any print butter unless the package or wrapper containing the same has conspicuously printed thereon, in letters or figures not less than one-half inch in height, in plain Gothic type, the net weight of the butter contained therein. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 3892.)
History: Sec. 19-179 transferred to Sec. 21a-21 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-22. (Formerly Sec. 19-180). - Sale of equine meat in public eating places.

No person, firm or corporation conducting a public eating place shall sell or offer for sale for human consumption any food containing equine meat or equine meat products, in whole or in part, without indicating such contents on each item thereof, or after each item thereof on the menu or bill of fare, in the same size print or writing as the largest size print or writing used in naming or describing such food. The provisions of this section shall be under the control and supervision of the Commissioner of Consumer Protection. Any person, or the responsible agent of any firm or corporation, who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 3924; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 38, 42; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act replaced commissioner of food and drugs with commissioner of consumer protection; Sec. 19-180 transferred to Sec. 21a-22 in 1983; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-23. (Formerly Sec. 19-181). - Adulteration of molasses.

Section 21a-23 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.
(1949 Rev., S. 3895; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-24. (Formerly Sec. 19-181a). - Misuse of the word “honey” in labels and brand names. Penalty.

(a) As used in this section, “honey” means the natural product of the honey bee taken from the nectar of flowers, transformed by such bee, taken from the honeycomb and marketed in a liquid, candied or granulated condition.
(b) No person who sells, exposes or offers for sale any product or article which does not contain honey as an ingredient, shall use the word honey or any combination of words including the word honey on the label or in the brand name of such product or article. No person who sells, exposes or offers for sale any product or article which is made from honey and any other substance, compound or mixture shall use the word honey or any combination of words including the word honey on the label or in the brand name of such product or article except when said word is printed in the same size type as are the other ingredients of such product or article.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be imprisoned not more than six months or fined not more than five hundred dollars or both.
(P.A. 74-116, S. 1, 2.)
History: Sec. 19-181a transferred to Sec. 21a-24 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-24b. - Sale of maple syrup.

(a) As used in this section, “residential farm” means property (1) being utilized as a farm, as defined in subsection (q) of section 1-1, and (2) serving as the primary residence of the owner of such property.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 21a-91 to 21a-120, inclusive, and any regulations adopted thereunder, the preparation and sale of maple syrup on a residential farm shall be allowed in a room used as living quarters and shall be exempt from inspection by any state or local agency. Each container of maple syrup offered for sale on such farm shall have on its label, in ten-point type: “Not prepared in a government-inspected kitchen.”
(P.A. 95-319.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-25. (Formerly Sec. 19-182). - Impure vinegar.

(a) No person shall make, sell, offer or expose for sale or exchange or solicit or receive any order for the sale or delivery within the state, or for delivery without the state for shipment into the state, of: (1) Any vinegar, as cider vinegar, not wholly produced from the juice of apples; (2) any vinegar or article sold or to be sold as vinegar, to which has been added any drug, or any hurtful or foreign substance, or any coloring matter, or any acid; or (3) any vinegar not having an acetic acidity equivalent therein of not less than four per cent by weight of absolute acetic acid and, in case of cider vinegar, not less than one and six-tenths per cent by weight of cider vinegar solids upon full evaporation over boiling water. The delivery of any of the above-mentioned articles upon an order solicited or received within the state shall be conclusive evidence that the order upon which such delivery was made was for such articles.
(b) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall (1) for a first offense, be fined not more than fifty dollars, and (2) for a subsequent offense, be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.
(1949 Rev., S. 3896; P.A. 07-217, S. 92; P.A. 12-80, S. 74.)
History: Sec. 19-182 transferred to Sec. 21a-25 in 1983; P.A. 07-217 made a technical change, effective July 12, 2007; P.A. 12-80 inserted Subsec. designators (a) and (b), repositioned and rephrased penalty provision and replaced penalty for subsequent offense of a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a class D misdemeanor.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-26. (Formerly Sec. 19-183). - Sale of vinegar regulated.

No person shall make and sell, or make and offer for sale, any vinegar without conspicuously branding, stenciling or painting, upon the head of the barrel, cask, keg or package containing the same, the name of the maker, his residence, the place of manufacture and the true name of the kind of vinegar contained therein as “cider vinegar”, “wine vinegar”, “malt vinegar” or “wood acid vinegar”. The provisions of this section shall not apply to retail sales at the place of manufacture in quantities of less than five gallons and in open packages. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and for each subsequent offense not more than one hundred dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 3897.)
History: Sec. 19-183 transferred to Sec. 21a-26 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-27. (Formerly Sec. 19-183a). - Definitions.

For purposes of sections 21a-27 to 21a-30, inclusive:
(1) “Flour” means any (A) flour, white flour, wheat flour, plain flour, (B) bromated flour, (C) self-rising flour, self-rising white flour, self-rising wheat flour, and (D) phosphated flour, phosphated white flour and phosphated wheat flour, but excludes whole wheat flour and also excludes special flours not used for bread, rolls, bun or biscuit baking, such as specialty cake, pancake and pastry flours.
(2) “White bread” means any bread, whether baked in a pan or in a hearth or screen which is commonly known or usually represented and sold as white bread, including, but not restricted to, Vienna bread, French bread and Italian bread.
(3) “Rolls” means plain white rolls and buns of the semi-bread-dough type, such as soft rolls, hamburger, hot dog and other soft rolls and hard rolls, such as Vienna or Kaiser rolls, but shall not include yeast-raised sweet rolls or sweet buns made with fillings or coatings such as cinnamon rolls or buns and butterfly rolls.
(4) “Corn meal” means that product formed by grinding and sifting corn but does not include that product unbolted, stone ground and unsifted.
(5) “Corn grits” means the food prepared by grinding and sifting corn with removal of bran and germ.
(6) “Rice” means all types of milled rice, parboiled rice, converted rice, precooked rice and broken rice.
(7) “Macaroni” means macaroni or macaroni products as defined in 21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 139, as amended.
(8) “Commissioner” means the state Commissioner of Consumer Protection.
(1972, P.A. 72, S. 1; P.A. 73-377, S. 1; P.A. 80-31; P.A. 81-472, S. 48, 159; P.A. 84-546, S. 63, 173; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 73-377 redefined “corn meal” to specifically exclude meal “stone ground by water power and unsifted”, defined “macaroni” in new Subsec. (g) and redesignated former Subsec. (g) as Subsec. (h); P.A. 80-31 redefined “corn meal” excluding meal “unbolted, stone ground and unsifted” rather than meal “stone ground by water power and unsifted”; P.A. 81-472 made technical changes; Sec. 19-183a transferred to Sec. 21a-27 in 1983 and alphabetic Subdiv. indicators replaced with numeric Subdiv. indicators and numeric Subpara. indicators revised accordingly for consistency with general use elsewhere in general statutes; P.A. 84-546 made technical correction in Subdiv. (7); June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-28. (Formerly Sec. 19-183b). - Standards of identity, quality and fill of container for flour, bread, rolls, corn meal, grits, rice or macaroni.

It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, mix, compound, sell or offer for sale in this state for human consumption any flour, bread, rolls, corn meal, grits, rice or macaroni, unless such food products, before retail sale, meet the standards of identity, quality and fill of container set forth in section 21a-100. The commissioner may require such person to provide evidence of compliance as required by regulations issued by the commissioner under the provisions of chapter 54.
(1972, P.A. 72, S. 2–5; P.A. 73-377, S. 2–6; P.A. 74-338, S. 22, 94; P.A. 84-546, S. 64, 173; P.A. 16-172, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 73-377 amended Subsecs. (a) to (d) to specify enrichment “before retail sale” and to require evidence of compliance as required by regulations issued under provisions of chapter 54 and added Subsec. (e) re macaroni; P.A. 74-338 specified Part 16, rather than Part 15, of federal regulations in Subsec. (e); Sec. 19-183b transferred to Sec. 21a-28 in 1983; P.A. 84-546 made technical changes; P.A. 16-172 deleted Subsec. (a) designator, added references to bread, rolls, corn meal, grits, rice and macaroni, replaced “flour is enriched” with “food products”, deleted reference to federal standards, added provision re meeting standards in Sec. 21a-100, made a technical change and deleted former Subsecs. (b) to (e) re conformance with federal standards re enrichment of bread, rolls, corn meal, grits, rice and macaroni, effective July 1, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-29. (Formerly Sec. 19-183c). - Analyses, examinations and investigations. Regulations.

(a) The commissioner is authorized to take samples for analysis and to conduct examinations and investigations, and to enter at reasonable times, any factory, mill, bakery, warehouse, shop or establishment where flour, white bread, rolls, corn meal, corn grits, macaroni or rice are manufactured, processed, packed, sold or held or any vehicle being used for the transportation thereof, and to inspect any such place or vehicle and any flour, white bread, rolls, corn meal, corn grits or rice therein and all pertinent equipment, materials, containers and labeling.
(b) The commissioner shall authorize such regulations as are necessary for the effective administration of sections 21a-27 to 21a-30, inclusive.
(1972, P.A. 72, S. 6; June, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 2; P.A. 73-377, S. 7.)
History: 1972 act made grammatical change in Subsec. (a); P.A. 73-377 included inspections re macaroni; Sec. 19-183c transferred to Sec. 21a-29 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-30. (Formerly Sec. 19-183d). - Penalty.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of sections 21a-27 to 21a-29, inclusive, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense and not more than five hundred dollars for each succeeding offense and imprisoned not more than three months for the first offense and not more than one year for each succeeding offense or both.
(1972, P.A. 72, S. 7.)
History: Sec. 19-183d transferred to Sec. 21a-30 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-31. (Formerly Sec. 19-184). - Adulteration of turpentine.

Section 21a-31 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.
(1949 Rev., S. 3900; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 38, 42; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-32. (Formerly Sec. 19-185). - Sale and use of articles containing wood alcohol.

Any person who sells, exchanges, offers for sale or exchange or delivers to another any wood alcohol, known as methyl alcohol, shall affix to the vessel or container holding the same a label bearing the words, “wood alcohol, poison”, printed or written thereon in letters not less than one-fourth of an inch in height. No person shall sell, exchange, offer for sale or exchange or deliver, or have in his possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver, any article of food or drink, or any drug intended for external or internal use on or within the human body, or any perfume or toilet article, containing any wood alcohol known as methyl alcohol. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall cause a prosecution to be instigated for any violation of the provisions of this section.
(1949 Rev., S. 4170; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 38, 42; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act replaced commissioner of food and drugs with commissioner of consumer protection; Sec. 19-185 transferred to Sec. 21a-32 in 1983; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-33. (Formerly Sec. 19-186). - Penalty for sale of adulterated liquors.

Any person who sells or exposes for sale any ale, beer or other fermented liquors, knowing the same to be adulterated, or adulterates for the purpose of sale any ale, beer or other fermented liquors, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months.
(1949 Rev., S. 3902.)
History: Sec. 19-186 transferred to Sec. 21a-33 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-35. (Formerly Sec. 19-193b). - Vending machine operator's license.

(a) No person shall, by himself or through any agent or employee, engage as a vending machine operator without a vending machine operator's license issued in accordance with the provisions of sections 21a-34 to 21a-45, inclusive.
(b) Any person desiring to obtain a vending machine operator's license shall apply to the commissioner, on forms which the commissioner shall provide, stating (1) the applicant's name and address or the name and address of each partner, in case of a partnership, or of each principal officer and director, in case of a corporation; (2) the address of the applicant's principal place of business; (3) the location of each commissary and other establishment, if any, where supplies are kept and where food or beverages are prepared; (4) the identity and form of the food or beverage to be sold or offered for sale in or supplied for vending machines; (5) the number and type of each vending machine which the applicant operates, replenishes or services; (6) a description of each motor vehicle in which the applicant transports food, beverages or supplies from a commissary to vending machines; and (7) such other information as the commissioner may require.
(c) Upon receipt of an application for a vending machine operator's license, the commissioner shall cause an investigation to be made of the applicant's commissary, servicing and transport facilities. Upon determining that the provisions of sections 21a-34 to 21a-45, inclusive, and the regulations adopted thereunder and all applicable municipal health ordinances and state and federal laws and regulations have been complied with, the commissioner shall issue an operator's license.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 596, S. 1; P.A. 07-217, S. 93.)
History: 1969 act deleted provision establishing $25 fee for license; Sec. 19-193b transferred to Sec. 21a-35 in 1983; P.A. 07-217 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective July 12, 2007.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-37. (Formerly Sec. 19-193d). - Display of license. Expiration. Change in location. Conversion of machine.

(a) Vending machine operators' licenses shall be of such size and style as the commissioner prescribes and shall be numbered. Each operator's license shall be displayed conspicuously at the operator's principal place of business in this state. No license shall be transferable from person to person. Each vending machine shall also bear in a conspicuous manner the name and address of the operator thereof and a telephone number which may be called for service at any hour of the day, provided, if two or more vending machines are displayed in a common area, such disclosure may be on a sign or placard conspicuously displayed in such area.
(b) Each license shall expire annually and may be renewed upon application and upon payment of the fee prescribed by section 21a-36.
(c) Each operator shall notify the commissioner promptly of any change in the location of and of the establishment of a commissary or service or transport facility.
(d) Every owner and operator shall maintain at his principal place of business in this state a current list of all vending machines which he owns and has in operation, which list shall be made available, upon request, to the commissioner and any authorized inspector.
(e) Every owner shall notify the commissioner promptly upon converting any vending machine to dispense any food or beverage other than that for which such machine originally was designed or constructed.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 4; 1969, P.A. 70, S. 2; 596, S. 3; P.A. 94-36, S. 25, 42.)
History: 1969 acts removed references to vending machine licenses, removed requirement that licenses be “serially” numbered, clarified nontransferability of licenses by adding phrase “from person to person” and added provisions re display of operator's name and address and service telephone number on machines in Subsec. (a), deleted reference to Sec. 19-193b in Subsec. (b) and replaced “owns or operates” with “owns and has in operation” in Subsec. (d); Sec. 19-193d transferred to Sec. 21a-37 in 1983; P.A. 94-36 amended Subsec. (b) to eliminate the reference to the “last day of June” license expiration date, effective January 1, 1995.
See Sec. 21a-10(b) re staggered schedule for license renewals.
See Sec. 21a-47 re penalty for violation of provisions of this section.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-38. (Formerly Sec. 19-193e). - Suspension or revocation of license.

(a) The commissioner may suspend or revoke any license issued under the provisions of section 21a-35 or 21a-36 for violation of the provisions of sections 21a-34 to 21a-45, inclusive, or any regulation adopted thereunder or for violation of any applicable municipal health ordinance or state or federal law or regulation. No such suspension or revocation shall take effect except upon notice to the licensee and hearing thereon. Notice shall be in writing, given by registered or certified mail, and shall state: (1) The condition or violation found; (2) the corrective action, if any, to be taken and the period of time within which such action must be taken; and (3) that an opportunity for hearing will be provided upon written request filed within ten days after receipt of such notice.
(b) Whenever the commissioner finds any grossly unsanitary condition or any other condition which constitutes a substantial hazard to public health or safety involving the preparation or transportation of any food or beverage or the use of any vending machine he may, without notice or hearing, issue a written order to the licensee citing the existence of such condition and specifying the corrective action to be taken, and, if he deems it necessary, require that use of such facility or machine be discontinued. Any licensee to whom such order is issued may petition for a hearing, which shall be granted, but no such petition shall stay the execution or effectiveness of any order pending hearing. Each such order shall continue in effect until it is rescinded by the commissioner or until the condition cited is corrected.
(c) The commissioner shall cause a seal or a tag or appropriate marking prohibiting its use to be placed upon every vending machine supplied by a person whose operator's license has been suspended or revoked and upon every vending machine the use of which is so prohibited.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 5; 1969, P.A. 596, S. 4; P.A. 07-217, S. 94.)
History: 1969 act amended Subsec. (c) to remove reference to machine licenses as separate from operator's license and replaced “supplier's license” with “operator's license” for consistency with other statutes; Sec. 19-193e transferred to Sec. 21a-38 in 1983; P.A. 07-217 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective July 12, 2007.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-39. (Formerly Sec. 19-193f). - Adulteration or misbranding.

(a) No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale in any vending machine, or have in his possession with intent to sell therefrom, any food, beverage or ingredient which is adulterated or misbranded.
(b) The commissioner may cause samples of any food, beverage or ingredient so sold, offered, exposed or possessed to be taken and examined as often as may be necessary to determine freedom from adulteration or misbranding. Upon written notice to the operator the commissioner may impound and forbid the sale of any food or beverage which is adulterated or misbranded and, after hearing, cause any such food or beverage to be destroyed, provided, in the case of misbranding which may be corrected by proper labeling, the commissioner may release such food or beverage to the operator upon corrective action being taken.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 6.)
History: Sec. 19-193f transferred to Sec. 21a-39 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-40. (Formerly Sec. 19-193g). - Inspections.

(a) The commissioner shall cause to be inspected regularly all commissaries and storage, service and transport facilities which handle readily perishable food. Any such commissary or facility which handles food not readily perishable may be inspected as often as the commissioner deems necessary, but in no event less than once every six months.
(b) After proper identification, any inspector may enter at any reasonable time during regular business hours upon any public or private premises where any commissary, storage, service or transport facility or vending machine is located. The owner or person in possession of each vending machine shall give such inspectors free access to the interior of such machine for inspection purposes.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 7.)
History: Sec. 19-193g transferred to Sec. 21a-40 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-42. (Formerly Sec. 19-193i). - Food from out-of-state commissaries.

Foods, beverages and ingredients from commissaries outside the jurisdiction of the state may be sold within the state if such commissaries conform to the provisions of the food establishment sanitation regulations of this state or to substantially equivalent provisions. To determine the extent of compliance with such provisions, the commissioner may accept reports from the responsible authority in the jurisdiction where the commissary or commissaries are located.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 9.)
History: Sec. 19-193i transferred to Sec. 21a-42 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-43. (Formerly Sec. 19-193j). - Regulations. Municipal ordinances.

(a) The commissioner may adopt such rules and regulations as he finds necessary to administer and enforce the provisions of sections 21a-34 to 21a-45, inclusive, and he shall adopt such rules and regulations respecting suppliers and vending machines as he finds necessary for public health and safety.
(b) Any municipality may, by agreement with the commissioner, adopt and enforce such health ordinances and regulations, not inconsistent with the purpose or policy of said sections or the regulations adopted by the commissioner thereunder, as it finds necessary for public health and safety.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 10.)
History: Sec. 19-193j transferred to Sec. 21a-43 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-44. (Formerly Sec. 19-193k). - Exemptions.

The provisions of sections 21a-34 to 21a-45, inclusive, shall not apply to any person who manufactures packaged candy or chewing gum or to any vending machine, or the owner or operator thereof, which dispenses (1) premixed carbonated beverages sealed in individual or bulk containers; (2) pasteurized milk, as defined in section 22-127, which is dispensed in sealed containers; (3) any food or beverage in a hermetically sealed container; or (4) shell eggs as defined by and regulated under sections 22-40 to 22-45, inclusive.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 11; 1963, P.A. 294; P.A. 05-175, S. 3.)
History: 1963 act added Subdiv. (4); Sec. 19-193k transferred to Sec. 21a-44 in 1983; P.A. 05-175 specified that exemption applies to “pasteurized” milk in Subdiv. (2) and made a technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-45. (Formerly Sec. 19-193l). - Penalty.

Any person who violates the provisions of sections 21a-34 to 21a-44, inclusive, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.
(1961, P.A. 579, S. 12.)
History: Sec. 19-193
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transferred to Sec. 21a-45 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-46. (Formerly Sec. 19-193m). - Information on vending machines.

Each vending machine used in dispensing merchandise or performing service in this state and not included under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 12-289 or subsection (a) of section 21a-37 shall bear in a conspicuous manner the name and address of the owner or operator thereof, and a telephone number which may be called for service at any hour of the day.
(1969, P.A. 70, S. 3.)
History: Sec. 19-193m transferred to Sec. 21a-46 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-47. (Formerly Sec. 19-193n). - Penalty.

Any person who violates any provision of subsection (b) of section 12-289, subsection (a) of section 21a-37 or section 21a-46 shall be fined not less than fifty dollars for each machine which is the subject of such violation.
(1969, P.A. 70, S. 4.)
History: Sec. 19-193n transferred to Sec. 21a-47 in 1983.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-49. (Formerly Sec. 19-195). - Records.

Each manufacturer of frozen desserts and frozen dessert mix shall keep, in the form prescribed by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, for each frozen dessert and frozen dessert mix plant operated by him, a true and correct record showing milk and milk products received and frozen dessert and frozen dessert mix manufactured. Such record shall show, among other things, (1) as to milk products received, (A) the date of receipt, (B) the weight or volume, (C) the kind of milk product or mixture containing a milk product, (D) the percentage of milk fat contained therein and (E) the name and address of the person from whom purchased or obtained; (2) as to frozen desserts and frozen dessert mix manufactured, (A) the date, (B) the volume, (C) the class of frozen desserts and frozen dessert mix and (D) the average percentage of milk fat contained therein. Not later than the tenth day of each month, an inventory shall be prepared showing the amount of each kind of milk product, mixture containing a milk product and frozen desserts and frozen dessert mix on hand, as of the last day of the preceding month. The records required by this section shall be legibly written in English, shall be preserved at the frozen dessert or frozen dessert mix plant for a period of six months and shall be open at all times for inspection by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection or his representatives.
(1949 Rev., S. 3911; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 38, 42; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act replaced commissioner of food and drugs with commissioner of consumer protection; Sec. 19-195 transferred to Sec. 21a-49 in 1983; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs › Section 21a-50. (Formerly Sec. 19-196). - Statistical reports.

Each manufacturer of frozen desserts and frozen dessert mix for sale shall file with the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, upon a form prescribed by him, not later than the tenth day of each month, a statement for the preceding month showing the amount of each class of frozen desserts and frozen dessert mix manufactured, the ingredients used in the manufacture of such frozen desserts and frozen dessert mix and such other statistical information as the commissioner requires.
(1949 Rev., S. 3912; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 38, 42; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act replaced commissioner of food and drugs with commissioner of consumer protection; Sec. 19-196 transferred to Sec. 21a-50 in 1983; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.