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2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs › Section 29.061 — Products To Be Labeled.

29.061 PRODUCTS TO BE LABELED.
All poultry and poultry products shipped under the authority of sections 29.021 to 29.081 shall be uniformly labeled with designs prescribed and furnished by the commissioner of agriculture; provided that all labeling pertaining to disease or freedom therefrom shall first be approved by the Board of Animal Health.
History:
(5460-13) 1931 c 408 s 7; 1957 c 672 s 6; 1961 c 113 s 1; 1980 c 467 s 33; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs › Section 29.071 — Certain Advertising Forbidden.

29.071 CERTAIN ADVERTISING FORBIDDEN.
No person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation shall use in literature, advertising material or on shipping labels, or otherwise, any language, words or phrases implying or indicating a breeding or a disease eradication or control status in conjunction with either the word "state" or the word "Minnesota," or both, as related to a poultry hatchery or a poultry breeding flock, except under the authority of sections 29.021 to 29.081.
History:
(5460-14) 1931 c 408 s 8; 1957 c 672 s 7; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 29 — Poultry, Eggs › Section 29.081 — May Cancel Certificates.

29.081 MAY CANCEL CERTIFICATES.
The commissioner of agriculture may cancel any certificate of accreditation or certification issued under the commissioner's authority, and likewise the secretary and executive officer of the Board of Animal Health may cancel any certificate of testing, approval, or accreditation issued under the authority of the board, for violation of sections 29.021 to 29.081, or any rule adopted thereunder; and any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation who shall violate any provision of sections 29.021 to 29.081, or any rule adopted thereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History:
(5460-15) 1931 c 408 s 9; 1957 c 672 s 8; 1961 c 113 s 1; 1980 c 467 s 34; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.02 — Prohibited Acts.

31.02 PROHIBITED ACTS.
The following acts set out in this section and the causing of such acts within this state are prohibited:
(1) the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding or offering for sale of any food that is adulterated or misbranded;
(2) the adulteration or misbranding of any food;
(3) the receipt in commerce of any food that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise;
(4) the distribution in commerce of a consumer commodity, as defined in section 31.01, subdivision 20, if such commodity is contained in a package, or if there is affixed to that commodity a label, which does not conform to the provisions of law and of rules promulgated pursuant to section 31.101; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to persons engaged in business as wholesale or retail distributors of consumer commodities except to the extent that such persons are engaged in the packaging or labeling of such commodities, or prescribe or specify by any means the manner in which such commodities are packaged or labeled;
(5) the sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of any article in violation of section 31.131;
(6) the dissemination of any false advertisement;
(7) the refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, or to permit access to or copying of any record as authorized by section 31.04;
(8) the giving of a guaranty or undertaking which guaranty or undertaking is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of the person residing in the state of Minnesota from whom the relying person received in good faith the food;
(9) the removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in violation of section 34A.11;
(10) the alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to a food if such act is done while such article is held for sale and results in such article being adulterated or misbranded;
(11) forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or without proper authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other identification device authorized or required by rules promulgated under the provisions of section 31.101 or of the federal act;
(12) the using by any person to the person's own advantage, or revealing, other than to the commissioner or the commissioner's authorized representative or to the courts when relevant in any judicial proceeding of any information acquired under authority of the Minnesota Food Law concerning any method or process which as a trade secret is entitled to protection; and
(13) the identification or sale as food for human consumption of any product which has previously been labeled or otherwise identified as animal food or seed which has received a seed treatment.
History:
(3789) 1921 c 495 s 2; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 1; 1974 c 84 s 19; 1980 c 442 s 1; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 2013 c 125 art 1 s 17
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.104 — Food Labeling Exemption Rules.

31.104 FOOD LABELING EXEMPTION RULES.
The commissioner shall promulgate rules exempting from any labeling requirement food which is, in accordance with the practice of the trade, to be processed, labeled, or repacked in substantial quantities at establishments other than those where originally processed or packed, on condition that such food is not adulterated or misbranded upon removal from such processing, labeling, or repacking establishment.
Federal regulations in effect on April 1, 2001, adopted under authority of the federal act relating to such exemptions are effective in this state unless the commissioner amends them. The commissioner also may amend existing rules concerning exemptions under chapter 14.
History:
1974 c 84 s 29; 1975 c 412 s 17; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 350 art 11 s 4; 1994 c 571 s 4; 1997 c 220 s 4; 2000 c 477 s 30; 2002 c 373 s 21
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.11 — Rules.

31.11 RULES.
Subdivision 1.
Food laws.
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 also be the duty of the commissioner to make and publish uniform rules, not inconsistent with law, for carrying out and enforcing the provisions of laws now or hereafter enacted relating to food; which rules shall be made in the manner provided by law. Until such rules are made and published, the rules heretofore made by the commissioner shall remain in full force and effect, except as otherwise prescribed by law. Any person who shall manufacture, use, sell, transport, offer for use, sale or transportation, or have in possession with intent to use, sell or transport, any article of food contrary to the provisions of any such rule, or who shall fail to comply with any such rule, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Subd. 2.
[Repealed, 1Sp2001 c 2 s 162]
History:
(3805) 1921 c 495 s 16; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 9; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1989 c 350 art 11 s 5
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.115 — Lawful To Produce Beverages In Basements Or Other Subgrade Areas, Use Buildings For Other Purposes.

31.115 LAWFUL TO PRODUCE BEVERAGES IN BASEMENTS OR OTHER SUBGRADE AREAS, USE BUILDINGS FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
For the purposes of inspection, licensing, permitting, and registration by the commissioner of agriculture under Minnesota Rules, parts 1550.1650 to 1550.1870, it is lawful to locate in a basement or other subgrade area an installation to manufacture, mix, or compound flavored beverage base or syrup; bottle or treat water; package carbonated or noncarbonated beverages; or bottle beer or other malt beverages. Buildings or portions thereof within the scope of Minnesota Rules, parts 1550.1710 to 1550.1870, may also be used for other purposes.
History:
2010 c 209 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.12 — Labeling.

31.12 LABELING.
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, by rulings not inconsistent with law, to require that any article of food, or the package, receptacle, or container thereof, before it be sold, transported, used, offered for sale or transportation, or had in possession with intent to use, sell or transport within this state, shall be labeled, stamped, stenciled, marked, or branded in such manner as to plainly exhibit to the purchaser any or all of the following data or information: The percentages and true composition of such food article, its quality, strength, quantity, source of its manufacture or production or the person by or for whom the same is manufactured, produced, packed, or shipped. The commissioner shall also have authority to prescribe by such rulings the date on which the same shall take effect and be in force, and also the form, size, style, and wording of, and the place, time, method, means and manner of use of all such labels, stamps, stencils, brands, and markings, which rulings shall be made in the manner provided by law. Until such rulings are made and in effect the rulings heretofore made by the commissioner shall remain in full force and effect, except as otherwise prescribed by law. Any person who shall fail to comply with such ruling or rulings shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History:
(3806) 1921 c 495 s 17; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 10
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.121 — Food Adulteration.

31.121 FOOD ADULTERATION.
A food shall be deemed to be adulterated if it is covered by section 34A.02.
History:
1974 c 84 s 30; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1990 c 554 s 1; 1992 c 486 s 2; 2012 c 244 art 2 s 14
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.122 — Food; Tolerances For Added Poisonous Ingredients.

31.122 FOOD; TOLERANCES FOR ADDED POISONOUS INGREDIENTS.
Any added poisonous or deleterious substance, any food additive, any pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity or any color additive, shall with respect to any particular use or intended use be deemed unsafe for the purpose of application of section 34A.02, clause (2), with respect to any food, unless there is in effect a rule pursuant to section 31.101 limiting the quantity of such substance, and the use or intended use of such substance conforms to the terms prescribed by such rule. While such rules relating to such substance are in effect, a food shall not, by reason of bearing or containing such substance in accordance with the rules, be considered adulterated within the meaning of section 34A.02, clause (1).
History:
1974 c 84 s 31; 1985 c 248 s 70; 2016 c 184 s 5
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.123 — Food Misbranding.

31.123 FOOD MISBRANDING.
A food is misbranded if it is covered by section 34A.03.
History:
1974 c 84 s 32; 1985 c 248 s 70; 2012 c 244 art 2 s 15
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.13 — Analysis; Evidence.

31.13 ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE.
It shall be the duty of the laboratory director, managers, and analysts to make analyses and examinations of such articles as shall be furnished to them by the commissioner, for the purpose of determining from such examination whether such articles are adulterated, misbranded, insufficiently labeled, unwholesome, poisonous, or deleterious and whether such articles have been manufactured, used, sold, transported, offered for use, sale, or transportation, or had in possession with intent to use, sell, or transport in violation of any law now or hereafter enacted relating to food, or of any definition, standard, rule, or ruling made and published thereunder, and to certify the result of such analysis and examination to the commissioner. A copy of the result of the examination or analysis of any such article, duly authenticated, by the analyst making such determinations or examination, under oath of such analyst, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of the matters and facts therein contained.
History:
(3807) 1921 c 495 s 18; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 11; 1985 c 248 s 70; 2012 c 244 art 1 s 32
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.131 — Emergency Permit Control.

31.131 EMERGENCY PERMIT CONTROL.
Subdivision 1.
Temporary conditional permits.
Whenever the commissioner finds after investigation that the distribution in the state of Minnesota of any class of food may, by reason of contamination with microorganisms during manufacture, processing, or packing thereof in any locality, be injurious to health, and that such injurious nature cannot be adequately determined after such articles have entered commerce, the commissioner then, and in such case only, shall promulgate rules providing for the issuance, to manufacturers, processors, or packers of such class of food in such locality, of permits to which shall be attached such conditions governing the manufacture, processing, or packaging, or packing of such class of food, for such temporary period of time as may be necessary to protect the public health; and after the effective date of such rules, and during such temporary period, no person shall introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce any such food manufactured, processed, or packed by any such manufacturer, processor, or packer unless such manufacturer, processor, or packer holds a permit issued by the commissioner as provided by such rules.
Subd. 2.
Immediate permit suspension.
The commissioner is authorized to suspend immediately upon notice any permit issued under authority of this section if it is found that any of the conditions of the permit have been violated. The holder of a permit so suspended may at any time apply for the reinstatement of such permit, and the commissioner shall, immediately after prompt hearing and inspection of the establishment, reinstate such permit or issue an amended permit if it is found that adequate measures have been taken to comply with and maintain the conditions of the permit, as originally issued, or as amended.
Subd. 3.
Inspection.
Any officer or employee duly designated by the commissioner shall have access to any factory or establishment, the operator of which holds a permit from the commissioner, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the conditions of the permit are being complied with, and denial of access for such inspection shall be ground for suspension of the permit until such access is freely given by the operator.
History:
1974 c 84 s 34; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.132 — Publicity.

31.132 PUBLICITY.
Subdivision 1.
Reports.
The commissioner may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing all judgments, decrees, and court orders which have been rendered under the Minnesota Food Law, including the nature of the charge and the disposition thereof.
Subd. 2.
Public health information.
The commissioner may also disseminate such substantiated information regarding food as the commissioner deems necessary in the interest of public health and the protection of the consumer against fraud. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the commissioner from collecting, reporting, and illustrating the results of the investigations of the commissioner.
History:
1974 c 84 s 35; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.15 — Disposal Of Receipts.

31.15 DISPOSAL OF RECEIPTS.
In all prosecutions under section 34A.04, save as therein specifically provided, the fine or fines collected by and under the same shall be forthwith transmitted by the officer collecting the same to the commissioner of management and budget, to the credit of the general fund, and all other fees and payments made to the commissioner, except as aforesaid, shall be accounted for and disposed of in the same manner.
History:
(3810) 1921 c 495 s 21; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 13; 1969 c 399 s 1; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109; 2013 c 125 art 1 s 19
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.161 — Food; Insanitary Conditions Prohibited.

31.161 FOOD; INSANITARY CONDITIONS PROHIBITED.
No person, firm, or corporation shall operate any bakery, confectionery, creamery, dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, laboratory, hotel, restaurant, cafe, dining room, eating house, fruit box, receptacle, fruit stand, or vehicle of any kind, packing or slaughter house, ice cream plant, or any place where any fruit or food products are manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, produced, or served for the purpose of sale or profit, or sold for any purpose whatever, if the same is in a filthy, unclean, or insanitary condition, or is permitted to be in a filthy, unclean, or insanitary condition.
History:
(3832) 1921 c 495 s 43
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.165 — Removal Of Insanitary Conditions.

31.165 REMOVAL OF INSANITARY CONDITIONS.
If, in the opinion of the commissioner or the commissioner's assistant, inspector, or agent, after an investigation thereof, any bakery, confectionery, creamery, dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, laboratory, hotel, restaurant, cafe, dining room, or eating house, fruit box, receptacle, fruit stand, or vehicle of any kind, packing or slaughter house, ice cream plant, or any place where any fruit or any food products are manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, produced, served or sold for any purpose whatever, is operated in violation of section 31.161, the commissioner, assistant, inspector, or agent shall notify, in writing, the proprietor, owner, or manager of such bakery, confectionery, creamery, dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, laboratory, hotel, restaurant, cafe, dining room or eating house, fruit box or receptacle, fruit stand, or vehicle of any kind, packing or slaughter house, ice cream plant, or any place where any fruit or any food products are manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, produced, served, or sold for any purpose, to place the same in a clean and sanitary condition within a reasonable time to be stated in the notice, which time so stated shall in no case be less than two days, and failure to comply with such notice within the time so stated shall be deemed a violation of the provisions of sections 31.161 to 31.171.
History:
(3833) 1921 c 495 s 44; 1961 c 144 art 2 s 14; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.171 — Employment Of Diseased Person.

31.171 EMPLOYMENT OF DISEASED PERSON.
It shall be unlawful for any person to work in or about any place where any fruit or any food products are manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, produced or sold, whose condition is such that disease may be spread to associates direct, or through the medium of milk, cream, butter, other food or food products, likely to be eaten without being cooked after handling, whether such condition be due to a contagious or infectious disease, in its active or convalescent stage, or to the presence of disease germs, whether accompanied by, or without, any symptoms of the disease itself.
It shall be the duty of the commissioner, or the commissioner's assistant, inspector, or agent, to report to the state commissioner of health for investigation, any person suspected to be dangerous to the public health, as provided for in this section, and immediately to exclude such person from such employment pending investigation and during the period of infectiousness, if such person is certified by the state commissioner of health, or an authorized agent, to be dangerous to the public health.
History:
(3834) 1921 c 495 s 45; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1986 c 444; 2008 c 297 art 1 s 17
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.175 — Water, Plumbing, And Sewage.

31.175 WATER, PLUMBING, AND SEWAGE.
A person who is required by statutes administered by the Department of Agriculture, or by rules adopted pursuant to those statutes, to provide a suitable water supply, or plumbing or sewage disposal system shall not engage in the business of manufacturing, processing, selling, handling, or storing food at wholesale or retail unless the person's water supply is satisfactory pursuant to rules adopted by the Department of Health, the person's plumbing is satisfactory pursuant to rules adopted by the Department of Labor and Industry, and the person's sewage disposal system satisfies the rules of the Pollution Control Agency. This section does not limit the commissioner's ability to issue a food handler's license when an investigation completed pursuant to section 28A.07 has determined the requirements of this section are not relevant and the applicant is considered fit to engage in business as described in the license application.
History:
1983 c 300 s 14; 1986 c 444; 2007 c 140 art 12 s 1; 2008 c 297 art 1 s 18; 2020 c 101 s 2
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.31 — Commercial Canneries, Regulation.

31.31 COMMERCIAL CANNERIES, REGULATION.
All commercial canneries shall be under the supervision and regulation of the commissioner. For the purpose of sections 31.31 to 31.392, a commercial cannery is defined to mean any place or building where food is received in a raw or partly processed form, except for meats and meat products frozen in retail stores for sale directly to the consumer, for the purpose of canning in hermetically sealed containers and where sterilization by heat is used, or where preservation of vegetable products is accomplished by the use of approved chemical preservatives, sugar, salt or acidity factors introduced as ingredients or additives, or by freezing food for sale as and for food in any other type of vessel, bottle, can, bag, container or other type or form of package, and the products placed on the market for general consumption as human food; but shall not include private homes where farmers or others may pack or preserve vegetables, fruits, fish or other food products for their own use, or a food establishment that processes meat or poultry products under supervision of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At such times as the commissioner may deem proper, the commissioner shall cause all commercial canneries to be inspected, and shall require the correction of all unsanitary conditions or practices found therein, and may search and enter all cupboards, closets, or any other places in such canneries for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of laws and rules provided therefor.
History:
(3835) 1921 c 495 s 46; 1927 c 177 s 1; 1947 c 558 s 1; 1955 c 499 s 1; 1961 c 144 art 4 s 1; 1967 c 673 s 1; 1975 c 412 s 18; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture › Chapter 31 — Food › Section 31.311 — Inspection Under Supervision Of Commissioner.

31.311 INSPECTION UNDER SUPERVISION OF COMMISSIONER.
The inspection of commercial canneries shall be under the supervision of the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture. The commissioner shall appoint trained and qualified sanitarians who shall inspect commercial canneries as often as is necessary, conduct bacteriological surveys, make sanitary inspections, and assist the canning industry. All commercial canneries shall comply with all food and sanitary laws and related rules; shall use only proper raw materials and ingredients in the preparation of food products; and shall utilize approved processing techniques in the packing and preservation of food products. In making inspections of commercial canneries the quality of any raw materials or ingredients used in canning, packing, or preserving food products shall be examined, and any raw materials or other ingredients thereof unfit for use in the packaging, canning, or preservation of food products shall be condemned. All such trained and qualified sanitarians and bacteriologists employed under the provisions of Laws 1967, chapter 673, shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 43A. All analyses, examinations, and assays of food samples and specimens either obtained during inspections or submitted to the laboratories of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture pursuant to law or rules shall be examined, analyzed, or assayed under the supervision of a bacteriologist of the Department of Agriculture.
History:
1947 c 558 s 2; 1957 c 114 s 1; 1961 c 113 s 1; 1967 c 673 s 2; 1981 c 210 s 54; 1985 c 248 s 70