217.025 When food deemed adulterated.
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<![CDATA[217.025 When food deemed adulterated. A food shall be deemed to be adulterated: <br>(1) (a) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health; but in case the substance is not an added <br>substance such food shall not be considered adulterated under this subsection <br>if the quantity of such substance in such food does not ordinarily render it <br>injurious to health; or (b) If it bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance which is unsafe within the meaning of KRS 217.045; or (c) If it consists in whole or in part of a diseased, contaminated, filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for food; or (d) If it has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have <br>been rendered diseased, unwholesome, or injurious to health; or (e) If it is the product of a diseased animal or an animal which has died otherwise than by slaughter, or that has been fed upon the uncooked offal from a <br>slaughterhouse; or (f) If its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; (2) (a) If any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom; or (b) If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part therefor; or <br>(c) If damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner; or <br>(d) If any substance has been added thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to increase its bulk or weight, or reduce its quality or strength or make it appear <br>better or of greater value than it is; (3) If it is confectionery and it bears or contains any nonnutritive article or substance except harmless coloring, harmless flavoring, harmless resinous glaze not in excess <br>of four-tenths of one percent (0.4%), harmless natural wax not in excess of four-<br>tenths of one percent (0.4%), harmless natural gum, and pectin; provided that this <br>subsection shall not apply to any chewing gum by reason of its containing harmless <br>nonnutritive masticatory substances; (4) If it bears or contains a coal-tar color other than one from a batch which has been certified under authority of the federal act; (5) If it is filled milk. Effective: June 17, 1978 <br>History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 292, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 247, sec. 3, effective June 16, 1960. Legislative Research Commission Note. Although this section was included in Acts 1978, ch. 292, </p>
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