Ohio Revised Code

Ohio Rev. Code § 917.05 (2026)

Prohibited acts

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No person shall do any of the following or cause any of the following to be done:

(A) Represent an imitation to be a dairy product;

(B) Use a measure, test, or equipment, for the purpose of determining the identity, quality, strength, purity, grade, quantity, or price of a dairy product, that does not comply with standards established by the director of agriculture by rule;

(C) Conduct a test to determine the identity, quality, strength, purity, grade, quantity, or price of a dairy product in a manner that is not in accordance with rules adopted by the director;

(D) Alter or destroy the results of a test conducted to determine the identity, quality, strength, purity, grade, quantity, or price of a dairy product;

(E) Manufacture, sell, or deliver, hold, or offer for sale a dairy product that is not labeled or represented in accordance with the "Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990," 104 Stat. 2353, 21 U.S.C.A. 343, as amended, and regulations adopted under it, and with this chapter and Chapter 3715. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those chapters;

(F) Manufacture, sell, or deliver, hold, or offer for sale a dairy product that is adulterated as described in section 3715.59 of the Revised Code or is misbranded as described in section 3715.60 of the Revised Code;

(G) Use for human consumption goat's milk, sheep's milk, or another animal's milk, except to manufacture dairy products that are described in 21 C.F.R., as amended, or recognized as nonstandardized traditional products normally manufactured from the animal's milk.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2013–2013 · leading case: Cleveland v. State, 2013 Ohio 1186 (Ohio Ct. App. 2013).
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Cleveland v. State, 2013 Ohio 1186 (Ohio Ct. App. 2013). “{¶25} Ohio law is largely devoid of specific food content regulation such as that found in CCO 241.42. Indeed, the state cites only three statutes concerning any form of content regulation and those statutes are narrowly limited to the specific regulation of dairy products (R.”
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