2006 Minnesota Statutes

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