The following acts are prohibited:
(1)Manufacture, sale, delivery, consignment, bailment, holding or offering for sale of any food that is adulterated or misbranded, except where a person in good faith delivers or offers to deliver the food and furnishes shipping documents to the secretary.
(2)Adulteration or misbranding of any food.
(3)Knowingly receiving in commerce any food which is adulterated or misbranded and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise.
(4)Sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale or offering for sale any article in violation of section 5731 (relating to poisonous or deleterious substances and tolerances).
(5)Refusal to permit during normal business hours entry to, inspection of or taking of a sample or access to or copying of any record
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The following acts are prohibited:
(1) Manufacture, sale, delivery, consignment, bailment, holding or offering for sale of any food that is adulterated or misbranded, except where a person in good faith delivers or offers to deliver the food and furnishes shipping documents to the secretary.
(2) Adulteration or misbranding of any food.
(3) Knowingly receiving in commerce any food which is adulterated or misbranded and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise.
(4) Sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale or offering for sale any article in violation of section 5731 (relating to poisonous or deleterious substances and tolerances).
(5) Refusal to permit during normal business hours entry to, inspection of or taking of a sample or access to or copying of any record at a food establishment as authorized under section 5732(a)(2) and (3) (relating to inspection, sampling and analysis).
(6) Removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed food article in violation of section 5726 (relating to detention and condemnation).
(7) Alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of a food or the doing of any other act with respect to a food, if the act is done while the food is held for sale and results in the food being adulterated or misbranded.
(8) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, falsely representing or using without proper authority any mark, stamp, tag, label or other identification device authorized or required by regulation promulgated under this subchapter.
(9) Use by any person to his own advantage or revealing, other than to the secretary or the courts when relevant in any judicial proceeding under this subchapter, of any information acquired under authority of this subchapter concerning any method or process which, as a trade secret or confidential trade information, is entitled to protection.
(10) Holding of any potentially hazardous food at unsafe temperatures in violation of an applicable regulation issued under this chapter.
(11) Failure to register with the department under the provisions of section 5734 (relating to registration of food establishments).
(12) Use of wording which incorrectly indicates or implies that a label or product has received approval of the department. A food establishment may not claim registration either upon its label or package or otherwise, except as provided in section 5735 (relating to product registration).
(13) Sale of confectionery containing alcohol at a level above one-half of 1% by volume.
(14) Failure by a carrier to make records showing the movement in commerce of any food or the holding thereof during or after the movement and the quantity, shipper and consignee thereof available for one year after the initial date of movement of the food in commerce.