§ 3:4744 — Applicability; prohibited activities

Louisiana § 3:4744

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 3: Agriculture and Forestry

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§4744. Applicability; prohibited activities
A. The provisions of this Part shall apply only to a person that places a label on a
food product as defined in R.S. 3:4743.
B. No person shall intentionally misbrand or misrepresent any food product as an
agricultural product through any activity including:
(1) Affixing a label to a food product that is false or misleading.
(2) Selling a food product under the name of an agricultural product.
(3) Representing a food product as an agricultural product for which a definition and
standard of identity has been provided by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21
U.S.C. 301 et seq., unless:
(a) The food product conforms to the definition and standard.
(b) The label of the food product bears the name of the food specified in the
definition and standard and includes the common names of optional ingredients other than
spices, flavoring, and coloring present in the food as regulations require.
(4) Representing a food product as meat or a meat product when the food product is
not derived from a harvested beef, pork, poultry, alligator, farm-raised deer, turtle, domestic
rabbit, crawfish, or shrimp carcass.
(5) Representing a food product as rice when the food product is not rice.
(6) Representing a food product as beef or a beef product when the food product is
not derived from a domesticated bovine.
(7) Representing a food product as pork or a pork product when the food product is
not derived from a domesticated swine.
(8) Representing a food product as poultry when the food product is not derived from
domesticated birds.
(9) Utilizing a term that is the same as or deceptively similar to a term that has been
used or defined historically in reference to a specific agricultural product.
(10) Affixing a label that uses the term "rice" in the name of the food product when
the food product is not rice or derived from rice.
(11) Representing a cell cultured food product as a meat product.
(12) Representing a food product as sugar when it is not an unaltered plant-based
simple sugar or sucrose.

Legislative History

Acts 2019, No. 273, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 2020.