§ 137E.5 — Enforcement — stop order

Iowa § 137E.5

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title IV: PUBLIC HEALTH
• Ch. 137E: FOOD PRODUCTS MISBRANDED AS MEAT PRODUCTS

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1. If a regulatory authority has reasonable cause to believe that a food processing plant is
offering for sale or selling a food product that is misbranded as a meat product in violation
of section 137E.4, the regulatory authority may issue a stop order. Upon being issued the
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stop order, the food processing plant shall not offer for sale or sell the food product until
the regulatory authority determines that the food product is or is not misbranded as a meat
product.
2. The regulatory authority may require that the food product be held by the food
processing plant and be secured from purchase.
3. If a regulatory authority determines that the food product being offered for sale or sold
by a food processing plant is misbranded as a meat product, the regulatory authority may
issue an embargo order requiring the food processing plant to dispose of the misbranded
meat product other than by sale to purchasers in this state.
4. The department, the attorney general, or the county attorney in the county where the
food product is being offered for sale or sold may enforce the stop order or embargo order
by petitioning the district court of that county.