O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 26-2-440 (2019)

Definitions

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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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As used in this article, the term:

(1) “Administration” means the United States Food and Drug Administration.

(2) “Department” means the Georgia Department of Agriculture.

(3) “Federal act” means the Federal Food Safety Modernization Act, 21 U.S.C. Section 301, et seq.

History

Code 1981, § 26-2-440, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 215, § 1/HB 176; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1112, § 26/SB 365; Ga. L. 2023, p. 730, § 4(b)(6)/HB 475, effective July 1, 2023. The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, part of an Act to revise, modern-

ize, and correct the Code, substituted “Federal Food Safety Modernization Act” for “federal Food Safety Modernization Act” in paragraph (3).

Annotations

The 2018 amendment, effective May 8, 2018, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in the introductory language of this Code section.