113025-113055

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
SECTION 113025-113055




113025.  "Processed pet food" means a food for pets that has been
prepared by heating, drying, semidrying, canning, or by a method of
treatment prescribed by regulation of the department. The term
includes, special diet, health foods, supplements, treats and candy
for pets, but does not include fresh or frozen pet foods subject to
the control of the Department of Food and Agriculture of this state.




113030.  "Pet" means any household animal including but not limited
to cats or dogs and other carnivores whether or not for exhibition.



113035.  "Pet food ingredients" means each of the constituent
materials making up a processed pet food. Pet food ingredients of
animal or poultry origin shall be only from animals or poultry
slaughtered or processed in an approved or licensed establishment.
Such animal or poultry ingredients condemned for human food but
passed for animal food in an establishment inspected by the United
States Department of Agriculture or the Department of Food and
Agriculture of this state may be used for pet food, provided it is
properly denatured or handled in accordance with this chapter and
regulations of the department and the regulations of the Department
of Food and Agriculture of this state so as to render the ingredients
safe for pet food. Animals or poultry classified as "deads" are
prohibited.


113040.  Incubator reject eggs may not be used in food for human
consumption but may be used for animal food or animal-food products.



113045.  The term "advertisement" means all representations
disseminated in any manner or by any means for the purpose of
inducing, or that are likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the
purchase of processed pet food. An advertisement shall be deemed
false if it is false or misleading in any particular.



113050.  If an article is alleged to be misbranded because the
labeling is misleading, or if an advertisement is alleged to be false
because it is misleading, then in determining whether the labeling
or advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account,
among other things, not only misrepresentations made or suggested by
statement, word, design, device, sound, or in any combination
thereof, but also the extent to which the labeling or advertisement
fails to reveal facts material in the light of representations or
material with respect to consequences that may result from the use of
the article to which the labeling or advertisement relates under the
conditions of use prescribed in the labeling or advertisement
thereof or under conditions of use as are customary or usual.



113055.  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Pure
Pet Food Act of 1969.