O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 26-2-35 (2019)

Food regulations

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) Whenever in the judgment of the Commissioner such action will promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of the consumers, the Commissioner shall promulgate regulations fixing and establishing for any food or any class of food a reasonable definition and standard of identity and, if applicable, a reasonable standard of quality and fill of container.

(b) In prescribing a definition and a standard of identity for any food or class of food in which optional ingredients are permitted, the Commissioner shall, for the purpose of promoting honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers, designate the optional ingredients which shall be named on the label. The definitions and standards so promulgated shall conform so far as practicable to the definitions and standards promulgated under authority of the federal act.

History

Ga. L. 1956, p. 195, § 9. Administrative rules and regulations. Rules of the Georgia Department of

Agriculture, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rule 40-1-1-.01 et seq.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Food, § 23 et seq. 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 460.

C.J.S. 36A C.J.S., Food, §§ 3, 4, 14. 73 C.J.S., Public Administrative Law and Procedure, § 208 et seq.