2023 Indiana Code › Title 16. Health › Article 42. Regulation of Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics › Chapter 2. Uniform Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Adulteration or Misbranding of Foods › 16-42-2-2. Adulterated Foods

Sec. 2. (a) A food is considered adulterated under any of the following conditions:
(1) If the food bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may make the food injurious to health. However, if the substance is not an added substance, the food is not to be considered adulterated under this subdivision if the quantity of the substance in the food does not ordinarily make the food injurious to health.
(2) If:
(A) the food bears or contains any added poison or added deleterious substance (other than a poison or a deleterious substance that is a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity, a food additive, or a color additive) that is unsafe within the meaning of section 5 of this chapter;
(B) the food is a raw agricultural commodity and the food bears or contains a pesticide chemical that is unsafe under section 5 of this chapter; or
(C) the food is or contains a food additive that is unsafe under section 5 of this chapter.
However, when a pesticide chemical is used in or on a raw agricultural commodity in conformity with an exemption granted or tolerance prescribed under section 5 of this chapter and the raw agricultural commodity has been subjected to processing such as canning, cooking, freezing, dehydrating, or milling, the residue of the pesticide chemical remaining in or on the processed food, notwithstanding section 5 of this chapter and clause (C) is not considered unsafe if the residue in or on the raw agricultural commodity has been removed to the extent possible in good manufacturing practice, and the concentration of the residues in the processed food, when ready to eat, is not greater than the tolerance prescribed for the raw agricultural commodity.
(3) If the food consists in whole or in part of a diseased, contaminated, filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or if the food is otherwise unfit for food.
(4) If the food has been produced, transported, handled, prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions or in unsanitary containers as the result of which the food may have become contaminated with filth or made diseased, unwholesome, or injurious to health.
(5) If the food is, in whole or in part, the product of:
(A) a diseased animal;
(B) an animal that has died otherwise than by slaughter; or
(C) an animal that has been fed upon the uncooked offal from a slaughterhouse.
(6) If the food's container is composed in whole or in part of any poisonous or deleterious substance that may make the contents injurious to health.
(7) If the food has been intentionally subjected to radiation, unless the use of the radiation was in conformity with a rule or an exemption in effect under section 5 of this chapter.
(8) If any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted from the food.
(9) If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part.
(10) If damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner.
(11) If any substance has been added to the food or mixed or packed with the food to:
(A) increase the food's bulk or weight;
(B) reduce the food's quality or strength;
(C) make the food appear better or of greater value than the food is; or
(D) create a deceptive appearance.
(12) If the food bears or contains a coal-tar color other than one from a batch that has been certified by the federal Food and Drug Administrator, as provided by regulations promulgated under authority of the Federal Act.
(13) If the food is a confectionery and has partially or completely imbedded in the food any nonnutritive object. However, this subdivision does not apply in the case of any nonnutritive object if, in the judgment of the state department as provided by rules, the nonnutritive object is of practical, functional value to the confectionery product and would not make the product injurious or hazardous to health.
(14) If the food is a confectionery and bears or contains any alcohol other than alcohol not in excess of one-half of one percent (0.5%) by volume derived solely from the use of flavoring extracts.
(15) If the food is a confectionery and bears or contains any nonnutritive substance. However, this subdivision does not apply to a safe, nonnutritive substance if:
(A) the nonnutritive substance is in or on a confectionery for a practical, functional purpose in the manufacture, packaging, or storing of the confectionery; and
(B) the use of the substance does not promote deception of the consumer or otherwise result in adulteration or misbranding in violation of any provision of IC 16-42-1 through IC 16-42-4. In addition, the state department may, for the purpose of avoiding or resolving uncertainty as to the application of this subdivision, adopt rules allowing or prohibiting the use of particular nonnutritive substances.
(16) If the food falls below the standard of purity, quality, or strength that the food purports or is represented to possess.
(17) If the food is or bears or contains any color additive that is unsafe under section 5 of this chapter.
(b) Subsection (a)(8) and (a)(9) do not prohibit:
(1) the removal of butterfat from; or
(2) the addition of skim milk to;
dairy products that comply with the definitions and standards for dairy products adopted by the state department.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citations: 16-1-29-2; 16-1-29-3; 16-1-29-4; 16-1-29-5; 16-1-29-6.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.25.