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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, § 192 (2026)

Enforcement of Secs. 186 to 195

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Section 192. The department of public health shall enforce sections one hundred and eighty-six to one hundred and ninety-five, inclusive. Local boards of health shall enforce only sections one hundred and eighty-six to one hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, as they pertain to food. Said department, after a public hearing, shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations consistent with said sections, and, except as to standards fixed by law, may adopt standards, tolerances and definitions of purity or quality or identity for articles of food, drugs or devices, and may adopt rules and regulations consistent with said section for cosmetics. Such standards, tolerances and definitions shall conform to the standards, tolerances and definitions, if any, of purity or quality or identity adopted or that may hereafter be adopted for the enforcement of the federal food, drug and cosmetic act, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight (Title 21, USC 301 et seq., 52 Stat. 1040 et seq.), or now or hereafter adopted for the enforcement of federal law.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1979–1988 · leading case: Am. Grain Prods. Processing Inst. v. Dep't of Pub. Health, 467 N.E.2d 455 (Mass. 1984).
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Am. Grain Prods. Processing Inst. v. Dep't of Pub. Health, 467 N.E.2d 455 (Mass. 1984). · cites it 16× “*311 See G. L. c. 94, § 192. The defendants sought relief from the single justice of this court pursuant to G.”
Grocery Mfrs. of Am., Inc. v. Dep't of Pub. Health, 393 N.E.2d 881 (Mass. 1979). “94, § 187), includes an omission of fact as well as an express misstatement of fact. The regulation seeks to eliminate the implied representation, which derives from the item’s availability for sale, that the food is fit for consumption (“last date of use”) or that it is of the…”
Am. Grain Prod. Processing Inst v. Dept. of Pub. Hlth., 467 N.E.2d 455 (Mass. 1984). · cites it 16× “*311 See G.L.c. 94, § 192. The defendants sought relief from the single justice of this court pursuant to G.”
Processed Apples Inst., Inc. v. Dep't of Pub. Health, 522 N.E.2d 965 (Mass. 1988). · cites it 6× “In this action for declaratory and injunctive relief, the plaintiffs claim that: (1) the Federal government has established *393 a tolerance [3] for daminozide residue in processed apple products; (2) therefore, under G.L.c. 94, § 192 (1986 ed.), a State tolerance for daminozide…”
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