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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.110 - When a cosmetic deemed adulterated.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1943
196.110. When a cosmetic deemed adulterated. —
A cosmetic shall be deemed to be adulterated:
(1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to users under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling or advertisement thereof, or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual; provided, that this provision shall not apply to coal tar hair dye, the label of which bears the following legend conspicuously displayed thereon:
"Caution — This product contains ingredients which may cause skin irritation on certain individuals and a preliminary test according to accompanying directions should first be made. This product must not be used for dyeing the eyelashes or eyebrows; to do so may cause blindness."
­­and the labeling of which bears adequate directions for such preliminary testing. For the purposes of this subdivision and subdivision (5), the term
"hair dye"
shall not include eyelash dyes or eyebrow dyes;
(2) If it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance;
(3) If it has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health;
(4) If its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health;
(5) If it is not a hair dye and it bears or contains a coal tar color other than one from a batch which has been certified under authority of the federal act.
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(L. 1943 p. 559 § 9872)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.115 - When a cosmetic deemed misbranded.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1943
196.115. When a cosmetic deemed misbranded. —
A cosmetic shall be deemed to be misbranded:
(1) If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular;
(2) If in package form unless it bears a label containing:
(a) The name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor; and
(b) An accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count; provided, that under (b) of this subdivision reasonable variations shall be permitted, and exemptions as to small packages shall be established by regulations prescribed by the department of health and senior services;
(3) If any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of sections 196.010 to 196.120 to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness, as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling, and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use;
(4) If its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading;
(5) The department is hereby directed to promulgate regulations exempting from any labeling requirement of sections 196.010 to 196.120 cosmetics which are, 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 cosmetics are not adulterated or misbranded under the provisions of said sections upon removal from such processing, labeling or repackaging establishment.
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(L. 1943 p. 559 § 9873)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.120 - Advertisement, when deemed false.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1943
196.120. Advertisement, when deemed false. —
An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic shall be deemed to be false if it is false or misleading in any material respect.
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(L. 1943 p. 559 § 9874)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.150 - Sale of horse and mule meat prohibited except when labeled as such meat.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.150. Sale of horse and mule meat prohibited except when labeled as such meat. —
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation to sell or offer for sale, either in wholesale or retail lots, any horse or mule meat under the guise or name of beef or any other animal flesh under the guise or name of any meat or meat product except that which in fact and truth it may be, without having attached thereto, a tag or other mark for identification plainly and legibly setting forth the true name of the animal from which such meat or flesh was taken or without having prominently displayed over or in conjunction with such meat or flesh, a legible sign or placard containing the true name of the animal from which the same was taken and without also advising the purchaser thereof by verbal, written or printed notice of the true name of the animal from which such meat or flesh was taken.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9884)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13035; 1919 § 5683
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.155 - Penalty.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.155. Penalty. —
Any person violating the provisions of section 196.150 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9885)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13036; 1919 § 5684
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.160 - Lawful to sell goat meat, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.160. Lawful to sell goat meat, when. —
It shall hereafter be lawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation to sell or offer for sale either in wholesale or retail lots, goat meat; provided, the same is branded goat meat or chevon.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9886)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13037
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.170 - Mixed flour to be branded.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.170. Mixed flour to be branded. —
No person shall sell or offer for sale any flour, meal, grits or hominy, made from the admixture or adulteration of grains, unless there shall have been first branded upon each of the barrels or packages containing the same, the kind of grains composing said admixture, the quality and weight thereof, and the name and place of business of the person manufacturing the same; provided, always, that the admixture of the several grades or kinds of wheat shall not be construed to be mixed or adulterated grains.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9917)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13077; 1919 § 5723; 1909 § 6617
CROSS REFERENCE:
Flour, meal, grits, or hominy to be branded and filed with recorder, penalty for violation, 417.100, 417.130, 417.140
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.175 - Penalty.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
Effective - 28 Aug 1949
196.175. Penalty. —
Any person doing any of the acts prohibited in section 196.170, or omitting to do any of the acts therein commanded, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars, one-half of which shall be paid to the person who shall be named as prosecuting witness.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9922, A. 1949 S.B. 1053)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13082; 1919 § 5728; 1909 § 6622
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.190 - To what places law applies.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.190. To what places law applies. —
Every building, room, basement, or cellar occupied or used as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packinghouse, slaughterhouse, restaurant, hotel, dining car, grocery, meat market, dairy, creamery, butter factory, cheese factory, or other place or apartment used for the preparation for sale, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food, shall be properly lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated and conducted with strict regard to the influence of such condition upon the health of the operatives, employees, clerks or other persons therein employed, and the purity and wholesomeness of the food therein produced; and for the purpose of sections 196.190 to 196.265, the term
"food"
, as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery condiment, whether simple, mixed or compound, and all substances or ingredients used in the preparation thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9888)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13039; 1919 § 5685
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.195 - Contents of places and utensils used must be protected.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.195. Contents of places and utensils used must be protected. —
1. The floors, sidewalks, ceilings, lockers, closets, furniture, receptacles, implements and machinery of every establishment or place where food is manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, trucks and vehicles used in the transportation of food products, shall at no time be kept in an unclean, unhealthy or insanitary condition, and for the purpose of sections 196.190 to 196.265, unclean, unhealthful and insanitary conditions shall be deemed to exist:
(1) If food in the process of manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, sale, distribution or transportation is not securely protected from flies, dust, dirt and, as far as may be necessary, by all reasonable means from all other foreign or injurious contamination; and
(2) If the refuse, dirt and waste products, subject to decomposition and fermentation, incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling, distributing and transporting of food, are not removed daily; and
(3) If all trucks, trays, boxes, baskets, buckets and other receptacles, chutes, platforms, racks, tables, troughs, shelves and all knives, saws, cleavers and other utensils, and machinery used in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning and all other processes are not fairly cleaned daily; and
(4) If the clothing of operatives, employees, clerks or other persons therein employed is unclean.
2. The placing of vinegar or other liquid, used as food or drink, in open vessels without covering the same is forbidden. The use of secondhand bottles for vinegar or other liquids, used as food or drink, is forbidden unless the same are first sterilized with live steam.
3. The sidewalk display of food products is prohibited unless such products are enclosed in a showcase or similar device, which will protect the same from flies, dust or other contamination; provided, that food products that necessarily have to be peeled, pared or cooked before they are fit for consumption may be displayed on the sidewalk; but the sidewalk display of meat or meat products is prohibited.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9889)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13040; 1919 § 5686
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.210 - Toilet rooms provided.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.210. Toilet rooms provided. —
1. Every building, room, basement or cellar, occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, canning, sale or distribution of food, shall have convenient toilet or toilet rooms, separate and apart from the room or rooms where the process of production, manufacture, packing, canning, selling or distributing is conducted.
2. The floors of such toilet rooms shall be of cement, tile, wood, brick or other nonabsorbent material and shall be furnished with separate ventilating flush or pipes, discharging into soil pipes, or on outside of the building in which they are situated.
3. Lavatories and washrooms shall be adjacent to toilet rooms, and shall be supplied with soap, running water and towels, and shall be maintained in a sanitary condition.
4. Operatives, employees, clerks and all other persons who handle the material from which food is prepared, or the finished product, before beginning work or after visiting toilets, shall wash their hands and arms thoroughly with soap and clean water.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9892)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13043; 1919 § 5689
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.220 - Not used for sleeping purposes.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.220. Not used for sleeping purposes. —
No person or persons shall be allowed to live or sleep in any room of a bakeshop, kitchen, dining room, confectionary or place where food is prepared, served or sold.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9894)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13045; 1919 § 5691
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.225 - Employees with communicable disease prohibited, where.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
196.225. Employees with communicable disease prohibited, where. —
No employer shall require or permit a person, nor shall a person work, affected with any disease in a communicable form or while a carrier of such disease, to work in any building or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution, and transportation of food in any capacity which brings the person into contact with the food.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9895, A.L. 1977 S.B. 262)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13046; 1919 § 5692
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.230 - Abatement of violations by director.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.230. Abatement of violations by director. —
The director of the department of health and senior services and his assistants or agents by him appointed, the state, county, city and town health officers shall have full power at any time to enter and inspect every building, room, basement or cellar, occupied or used, or suspected of being used, for the production for sale, manufacture for sale, storage, sale, distribution or transportation of food and all utensils, fixtures, furniture and machinery used as aforesaid, and if upon inspection any food producing or distributing establishment, conveyance, employer, operative, employee, clerk, driver or other person is found to be violating any of the provisions of sections 196.190 to 196.265, or if the production, cooking, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, sale, distribution or transportation of food is being conducted in a manner detrimental to the health of the employees and operatives and the character or quality of the food therein being produced, manufactured, packed, stored, sold, distributed or conveyed, the officer or inspector, making the examination or inspection, shall furnish evidence of said violation to the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the violation occurs, and it shall be the duty of all prosecuting attorneys to represent and prosecute, in behalf of the people, when called upon by the director of the department of health and senior services to do so, all such cases of offenses arising under the provisions of sections 196.190 to 196.265. When complaint is made by the said director of the department of health and senior services, security for costs shall not be required of the complainant in any case at any time of the prosecution or trial.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9896)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13047; 1919 § 5693
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.235 - Penalty.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.235. Penalty. —
Any person who violates any of the provisions of sections 196.190 to 196.230, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9897)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13048; 1919 § 5694
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.240 - Authorization by director to close health menace.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.240. Authorization by director to close health menace. —
It shall be the duty of the director of the department of health and senior services, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to close any market place, grocery store, general store, bakery, confectionery, butcher shop, slaughterhouse, dining car, refrigerator car, cold storage plant or warehouse, hotel dining room or kitchen, cafe, restaurant, lunch counter, drug store, or any other place, or places, where articles or commodities intended for human food, or for human consumption as medicine, are manufactured, sold, stored or prepared for sale, or wherever food and drink is served, where such places shall, in the judgment of said director, constitute a menace to the public health, by reason of dirt, filth, or other insanitary cause.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9898)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13049; 1919 § 5695
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.245 - Order to specify what — revocation — reopening.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.245. Order to specify what — revocation — reopening. —
Any order issued by the director of the department of health and senior services for the closing of any place or places mentioned in section 196.240, shall specify the cause or causes for which such order was issued, and the time during which same shall be in effect. The director shall revoke such order before the time specified therein for its expiration; provided, that the cause for which such order was issued is removed, and if the director is satisfied that such place or places may be reopened without endangering the public health.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9899)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13050; 1919 § 5696
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.250 - Construction of the word close.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.250. Construction of the word close. —
The word
"close"
, as used in sections 196.190 to 196.265, shall be construed to mean a suspension of business, and it shall be unlawful for the proprietor, manager, or person having charge of any place mentioned in section 196.240 to transact any business in violation of any order of the director of the department of health and senior services closing same.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9901)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13052; 1919 § 5698
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.265 - Penalty for violation.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
196.265. Penalty for violation. —
Any person who shall fail, or refuse, to obey any order of the director of the department of health and senior services to close any place, or places, mentioned in section 196.240, or who shall exhibit or expose for sale in any show window upon any sidewalk, any vegetables or other articles or commodities whatsoever intended for human food, in violation of any order of the director, or who shall, in any way, resist or interfere with the director in the enforcement of sections 196.190 to 196.265, or any order of the director made pursuant to the authority of this law, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9904)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13055; 1919 § 5701
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.271 - Food manufacturers or distributors may register.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
196.271. Food manufacturers or distributors may register. —
All establishments engaged in the manufacture of food or distribution of foods to wholesale accounts may register with the department of health and senior services as a food manufacturer or food distributor.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 262 § 196.270)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.291 - Food sold at religious events or charitable functions exempt from food inspection laws and regulations, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
196.291. Food sold at religious events or charitable functions exempt from food inspection laws and regulations, when. —
All sales of foods which are not potentially hazardous foods, as defined by regulation, sold by religious, charitable, or nonprofit organizations at their religious events or at charitable functions and activities shall be exempt from all state laws and regulations relating to food inspection, pursuant to sections 196.190 to 196.271.
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(L. 2005 S.B. 355)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.298 - Definitions — operation not deemed food service establishment, when — no state or local regulation.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 2022, 2 histories
196.298. Definitions — operation not deemed food service establishment, when — no state or local regulation. —
1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1)
"Baked good"
, includes cookies, cakes, breads, danish, donuts, pastries, pies, and other items that are prepared by baking the item in an oven. A baked good does not include a potentially hazardous food item as defined by department rule;
(2)
"Cottage food production operation"
, an individual operation out of the individual's home who:
(a) Produces a baked good, a canned jam or jelly, or a dried herb or herb mix for sale at the individual's home; and
(b) Sells the food produced under paragraph (a) of this subdivision only directly to consumers;
(3)
"Department"
, the department of health and senior services;
(4)
"Home"
, a primary residence that contains a kitchen and appliances designed for common residential usage.
2. A cottage food production operation is not a food service establishment and shall not be subject to any health or food code laws or regulations of the state or department other than this section and rules promulgated thereunder for a cottage food production operation.
3. (1) A local health department shall not regulate the production of food at a cottage food production operation.
(2) Each local health department and the department shall maintain a record of a complaint made by a person against a cottage food production operation.
4. The department shall promulgate rules requiring a cottage food production operation to label all of the foods described in this section which the operation intends to sell to consumers. The label shall include the name and address of the cottage food production operation and a statement that the food is not inspected by the department or local health department.
5. A cottage food production operation shall not sell any foods described in this section through the internet unless both the cottage food production operation and the purchaser are located in this state.
6. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the authority of the department of health and senior services or local health departments to conduct an investigation of a food-borne disease or outbreak.
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(L. 2014 S.B. 525, A.L. 2022 H.B. 1697)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.311 - Definitions.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 2023, 2 histories
196.311. Definitions. —
Unless otherwise indicated by the context, when used in sections 196.311 to 196.361:
(1)
"Consumer"
means any person who purchases eggs for such person's own family use or consumption; or any restaurant, hotel, boardinghouse, bakery, or other institution or concern which purchases eggs for serving to guests or patrons thereof, or for its own use in cooking, baking, or manufacturing their products;
(2)
"Container"
means any box, case, basket, carton, sack, bag, or other receptacle. "Subcontainer" means any container when being used within another container;
(3)
"Dealer"
means any person who purchases eggs from the producers thereof, or another dealer, for the purpose of selling such eggs to another dealer, a processor, or retailer;
(4)
"Denatured"
means eggs (a) made unfit for human food by treatment or the addition of a foreign substance, or (b) with one-half or more of the shell's surface covered by a permanent black, dark purple or dark blue dye;
(5)
"Director"
means the director of the department of agriculture;
(6)
"Eggs"
means the shell eggs of a domesticated chicken, turkey, duck, quail, goose, or guinea that are intended for human consumption;
(7)
"Inedible eggs"
means eggs which are defined as such in the rules and regulations of the director adopted under sections 196.311 to 196.361, which definition shall conform to the specifications adopted therefor by the United States Department of Agriculture;
(8)
"Person"
means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation or any other business organization, and any member, officer or employee thereof;
(9)
"Processor"
means any person engaged in breaking eggs or manufacturing or processing egg liquids, whole egg meats, yolks, whites, or any mixture of yolks and whites, with or without the addition of other ingredients, whether chilled, frozen, condensed, concentrated, dried, powdered or desiccated;
(10)
"Retailer"
means any person who sells eggs to a consumer;
(11)
"Sell"
means offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession for sale, exchange, barter, or trade.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.310, A.L. 2013 H.B. 542 merged with S.B. 329, A.L. 2023 H.B. 202 merged with S.B. 138)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.313 - License to sell eggs required — exceptions.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.313. License to sell eggs required — exceptions. —
No person shall buy, sell, trade or traffic in eggs in this state without a license with the following exceptions:
(1) Those who sell only eggs produced by their own flocks, provided such eggs are not sold at an established place of business away from the premises of such producer;
(2) Hatcheries which purchase eggs used exclusively for hatching purposes;
(3) Hotels, restaurants, and other public eating places where all eggs purchased are served in the establishment;
(4) Bakeries, confectioneries, and ice cream manufacturers purchasing eggs for use and used only in the manufacture of their products.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.332)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.316 - License requirements — applications — kinds of licenses — fees — posting.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 2023, 2 histories
196.316. License requirements — applications — kinds of licenses — fees — posting. —
1. All persons engaged in buying, selling, trading or trafficking in, or processing eggs, except those listed in section 196.313, shall be required to be licensed under sections 196.311 to 196.361. Such persons shall file an annual application for such license on forms to be prescribed by the director, and shall obtain an annual license for each separate place of business from the director. The following types of licenses shall be issued:
(1) A
"retailer's license"
shall be required of any person defined as a retailer in section 196.311. A holder of a retailer's license shall not, by virtue of such license, be permitted or authorized to buy eggs from any person other than a licensed dealer, and any retailer desiring to buy eggs from persons other than licensed dealers shall obtain a dealer's license in addition to a retailer's license. Fees for such license shall not exceed one hundred dollars annually per license;
(2) A
"dealer's license"
shall be required of any person defined as a dealer in section 196.311. A holder of a dealer's license shall not, by virtue of such license, be authorized or permitted to sell eggs to consumers, and any dealer desiring to sell eggs to consumers shall obtain a retailer's license in addition to a dealer's license. Fees for such license shall not exceed one hundred seventy-five dollars annually per license;
(3) A
"processor's license"
shall be required of any person defined as a processor in section 196.311. A holder of a processor's license shall not, by virtue of such license, be authorized or permitted to sell eggs in the shell to other persons, and any person desiring to sell eggs in the shell to other persons shall obtain a dealer's license in addition to a processor's license. Fees for such license shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars annually per license.
2. The director of agriculture shall have the authority to assess egg licensing fees to assist in defraying operating expenses. A schedule of licensing fees shall be fixed by rule or regulation promulgated under chapter 536 by the director of the department of agriculture.
3. All licenses shall be conspicuously posted in the place of business to which it applies. The license year shall be twelve months, or any fraction thereof, beginning July first and ending June thirtieth.
4. No license shall be transferable, but it may be moved from one place to another by the consent of the director.
5. All moneys received from license fees collected hereunder shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the agriculture protection fund created in section 261.200.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.335, A.L. 2010 S.B. 795, A.L. 2023 H.B. 202 merged with S.B. 138)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.318 - Licensees to keep records.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.318. Licensees to keep records. —
All persons licensed under the provisions of sections 196.311 to 196.361 shall keep records of purchases and sales of eggs, of the grades of eggs bought and sold, and other related information necessary for the proper enforcement of sections 196.311 to 196.361, in the manner and form, and for such reasonable period of time, as may be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the director.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.337)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.321 - Standards and grades to be fixed.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.321. Standards and grades to be fixed. —
The quality standards for grades of eggs, the size designation and standards therefor by weight, and tolerances within grades, shall be established by the director through the promulgation and issuance of regulations; provided, the quality standards and designations, size standards and designations, and tolerances within grades shall not be lower than those established by the United States Department of Agriculture.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.312)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.323 - Kinds of eggs which may be sold.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.323. Kinds of eggs which may be sold. —
1. Only eggs of the quality standard designated Grade "AA", Grade "A", Grade "B", or Grade "C", shall be sold to any consumer by any person.
2. Inedible eggs shall not be bought, sold or trafficked in and any inedible eggs found in the hands of any person are declared to be contraband and shall be destroyed as contraband. The director, by regulation, may permit the sale and use of denatured inedible eggs for purposes other than human food.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 §§ 196.315, 196.317)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.326 - Egg containers to be marked or labeled.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.326. Egg containers to be marked or labeled. —
Eggs, which have been graded as to quality and size for sale to consumers, shall not be prepared, packed, placed, delivered for shipment or sale, loaded, shipped, transported, or sold in bulk or in containers or subcontainers:
(1) Unless each container and subcontainer of eggs is marked with the full, correct and unabbreviated designation of size and quality of the eggs therein, according to the standards established by the director, together with the name and address of the producer, dealer, retailer, or agent by or for whom the eggs were graded or marked;
(2) Unless all markings on any container which do not properly and accurately apply to the eggs placed or packed therein have been removed, erased or obliterated;
(3) Which are mislabeled by the placing or presence of any false, deceptive or misleading mark, term, statement, design, device, inscription, or any other designation, upon any eggs or upon any container or subcontainer of eggs, or upon the label or lining or wrapper thereof, or upon any placard or sign used in connection therewith, or in connection with any bulk lot or display having reference to eggs;
(4) Which are deceptive by any arrangement of the contents of any container, or subcontainer, or of any lot, load, or display, in which the eggs in the outer layer or in any portion exposed to view are in quality, size, condition, or in any other respect so superior to those in the interior or unexposed portion as to materially misrepresent the contents or any part thereof as to size, quality, condition, or any other respects;
(5) Unless designations of size and quality upon containers and subcontainers of eggs shall be plainly and conspicuously marked in boldface type letters on a contrasting background of (a) not less than three-eighths of an inch in height on the outside top face of each container holding less than fifteen dozen eggs, and (b) not less than two inches in height on one outside end of any oblong container holding fifteen dozen or more eggs, and on one outside side of any other container holding fifteen dozen or more eggs.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.320)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.328 - Containers not required to be marked, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.328. Containers not required to be marked, when. —
No markings are required on containers or subcontainers of eggs:
(1) When sold at retail from a properly marked bulk display and packaged in the presence of the purchaser for the immediate purpose of the sale;
(2) When sales are made without advertising, by the producer, from eggs produced on his own premises and are not sold at an established place of business away from premises of such producer;
(3) On containers of fifteen dozen or more eggs which contain properly marked subcontainers.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.331 - Sign required on sale from bulk lots.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.331. Sign required on sale from bulk lots. —
Eggs shall not be sold to consumers, from bulk lots without displaying a plainly legible sign or placard conspicuously placed and posted in such a position as to clearly and accurately identify the eggs designated thereby, marked with the full, correct and unabbreviated designation of quality and size of such eggs in boldface type letters not less than one inch in height, according to the standards established by the director.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.325)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.333 - Markings in case of eggs from different species of fowl.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.333. Markings in case of eggs from different species of fowl. —
No person shall sell or represent eggs from any other species of fowl as chicken eggs, or sell mixed eggs from more than one species of fowl, or eggs from ducks, turkeys, geese, or any species of fowl other than chickens, without marking the containers and subcontainers of such eggs or otherwise indicating fully by sign, placard or other inscription the species of fowl from which such eggs were produced.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.327)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.336 - Advertisements of price to give size and quality.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.336. Advertisements of price to give size and quality. —
No person shall advertise by sign, placard, or otherwise, the price at which eggs are offered for sale without marking the full, correct, and unabbreviated designation of size and quality of such eggs on such advertisement, in conjunction with the price. Such designations of size and quality shall be in boldface type or other conspicuous letters, and at least one-half the size of the letters or figures used to designate the price of such eggs.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.330)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.338 - Dealer to furnish retailer with invoice showing size and quality.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.338. Dealer to furnish retailer with invoice showing size and quality. —
Every dealer selling eggs to a retailer shall furnish an invoice showing the size and quality of such eggs according to the standards prescribed by sections 196.311 to 196.361 and by the rules and regulations of the director.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.340)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.341 - Processing plants kept clean — standards — inspection — rulemaking, procedure.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
196.341. Processing plants kept clean — standards — inspection — rulemaking, procedure. —
The premises, plants and facilities operated and maintained by egg processors shall be operated and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. The director shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to this section and chapter 536 establishing standards of cleanliness and sanitation for such premises, plants and facilities, and the director, or his authorized agents or representatives, are authorized and empowered to inspect such premises, plants and facilities in order to enforce such cleanliness and sanitation requirements. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of sections 196.311 to 196.361 shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.342, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.343 - Inspection of business premises and records.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.343. Inspection of business premises and records. —
The director, or his authorized agents or representatives, may enter, during the regular business hours, any establishment where eggs are bought, stored, sold, offered for sale, or processed, in order to inspect and examine eggs, the products of eggs, egg containers, and the premises, and to examine the records of such establishments relating thereto.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.345)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.346 - Stop-sale orders, effect — appeals.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote
196.346. Stop-sale orders, effect — appeals. —
The director, or his authorized agents or representatives, are authorized and empowered to issue and enforce a written or printed "Stop-Sale" order to the owner or custodian of any eggs which are found to be in violation of any of the provisions of sections 196.311 to 196.361, or the rules or regulations adopted under the authority of sections 196.311 to 196.361, which order shall prohibit the further sale of such eggs until sections 196.311 to 196.361 have been complied with and the owner or custodian shall have the right to take such steps as may be possible to bring the eggs into compliance, such as regrading or relabeling, and, provided that in respect to eggs that have been denied sale as provided in sections 196.311 to 196.361, the owner or custodian of such eggs shall have the right to appeal from such order to the circuit court of the county or city in which the eggs are located, praying for a judgment as to the justification of such order and for the discharge of such eggs from the order prohibiting the sale in accordance with the findings of the court.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.347, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Effective 1-2-79
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.348 - Court may order seizure of eggs, when — condemnation.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote
196.348. Court may order seizure of eggs, when — condemnation. —
Any eggs found in the possession of an owner or custodian and not in compliance with the provisions of sections 196.311 to 196.361, or the rules or regulations adopted hereunder, shall be subject to seizure upon complaint of the director to the circuit court of the county or city in which such eggs are located. Such seizure shall not be made until the owner or custodian of the eggs has been given forty-eight hours from the time of a "Stop-Sale" order to bring the eggs into compliance with sections 196.311 to 196.361, or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder. In the event the court finds that the eggs do not comply with sections 196.311 to 196.361, or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder, it shall order the condemnation thereof, and the eggs shall be denatured, processed, destroyed, regraded, relabeled, or otherwise disposed of by the court.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.350, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Effective 1-2-79
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.351 - License suspended or revoked, when, procedure — appeal.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.351. License suspended or revoked, when, procedure — appeal. —
The director is hereby authorized and empowered to suspend or revoke the license of any dealer, processor, or retailer, or to refuse to issue a license to any applicant therefor if the director, after a public hearing, has found that such dealer, processor, retailer, or applicant for a license, has violated any of the provisions of sections 196.311 to 196.361, or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder. Any such dealer, processor, retailer, or applicant shall have full rights to have counsel, to produce witnesses in his behalf at such hearing, and to have ten days' notice in writing of the date, time and place of such hearing, and the charges and grounds upon which his license is sought to be revoked or suspended, or to be refused a license. The order of suspension, revocation, or refusal to issue a license, shall not become final until ten days after the date thereof, and after the party to the proceeding has been notified in writing of the action of the director. Any party to the proceedings that is aggrieved by any final decision or order of the director, may appeal such order in the manner provided for such appeals in the Administrative Procedure Act of Missouri (Chapter 536).
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.352)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.352 - Civil penalty authorized, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 2019
196.352. Civil penalty authorized, when. —
In addition to the penalties and remedies provided in sections 196.311 to 196.361, if the director determines, after inquiry and opportunity for a hearing, that any individual is in violation of any provision of sections 196.311 to 196.361 or any regulation promulgated thereunder, the director shall have the authority to assess a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for each violation and not more than five hundred dollars for each day such violation continues. Any individual aggrieved by any act of the director under this section may appeal according to the provisions of chapter 621.
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(L. 2019 S.B. 133)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.354 - Duties of director of agriculture — rules and regulations.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
196.354. Duties of director of agriculture — rules and regulations. —
The duty of enforcing sections 196.311 to 196.361 is vested in the director who shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to secure the enforcement of and carry out the provisions of sections 196.311 to 196.361. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024.
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(L. 1955 p. 701 § 196.355, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco › Section 196.357 - Violations may be enjoined.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 196
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
196.357. Violations may be enjoined. —
In addition to the remedies provided for in sections 196.311 to 196.361 or by law, the prosecuting attorney of any county in which a violation of any provision of sections 196.311 to 196.361 occurs or the attorney general of the state, is hereby authorized to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for, and such court shall have jurisdiction upon hearing and for cause shown to grant, a temporary or permanent injunction to restrain any person from violating any provision of sections 196.311 to 196.361.
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(L. 1955 p. 701)