La. Admin. Code tit. 49 § I-935

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section I-935 - Label, Common or Usual Name [Formerly 49:3.0700]

A. The name of a meat or meat product used on any labeling shall be the common or usual name, if any there be, and one which clearly and completely identifies the article. Any meat or meat food product which has been prepared by salting, smoking, drying, cooking, chopping and the like shall be so described on the label unless the name of the article implies, or the manner of packaging shows, that the meat or meat product was subjected to such procedure or procedures. The unqualified terms, "meat," "meat byproduct," "meat food product," and terms common to the meat industry but not to the consumer, such as "picnic," "butt," "cala," "square," "loaf," "spread," "delight," "roll," "plate," "luncheon," and "dairy," shall not be used as names of articles unless accompanied by terms descriptive of the meat or meat product or with a list of the ingredients.

La. Admin. Code tit. 49, § I-935

Adopted by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Preventive and Public Health Services, September 1968.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, Title 40, as amended.