3.2-5127 - Removal of certain labels from meat packaging prohibited; penalty.
§ 3.2-5127. Removal of certain labels from meat packaging prohibited; penalty.
It is unlawful for any person holding or offering for retail sale any meat,poultry, or seafood in packaged form who affixes to such food a labelcontaining a date by which such food is to be sold, to willfully remove,alter, mutilate, destroy, or obscure the dated portion of the label on thepackage, unless the dated portion of the label is removed in connection withthe repackaging of such food, or to correct bona fide typographical errors.If the dated portion of the label is removed and a replacement label isattached when such food is repackaged, the replacement label shall bear theoriginal date by which the food is to be sold or an earlier date. Any personwho violates any provision of this section is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
This section shall not apply to meat, poultry, or seafood that is canned orcured.
(1993, c. 106, § 3.1-388.1; 2008, c. 860.)