Minnesota Administrative Rules

1545.0290 MEAT, POULTRY, AND FISH PRODUCTS SOLD BY WEIGHT.

Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold or as one of several elements comprising a ready-to-eat meal sold as a unit for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where sold, all meat, meat products, poultry (whole or parts), and all fish and seafood except shellfish, offered or exposed for sale or sold as food, shall be offered or exposed for sale and sold by weight. When meat, poultry, fish, or seafood is combined with or associated with some other food element or elements to form either a distinctive food product or a food combination, such food product or combination shall be offered or exposed for sale and sold by weight. The quantity representation shall be either the total weight of the product or combination of the separate weight of each of the several elements of the product or combination; provided, that for ready-to-cook, whole carcasses, stuffed poultry, ready-to-cook stuffed poultry roasts, rolls, bars, and logs, and ready-to-cook stuffed poultry products designated by terms of similar import, the label must show the total net weight of the poultry product and in proximity thereto, a statement specifying the minimum weight of poultry in the product.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 31.10; 31.101; 31.11

Published Electronically:

August 28, 2002