Fraudulent Practices

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics
  4. Standards, Labeling, and Adulteration of Food
  5. Meat Inspection
  6. Inspection of Animals, Carcasses, Meat, and Meat Food Products; Adulteration and Misbranding
  7. Fraudulent Practices

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  1. No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person, firm, or corporation shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the Commissioner.
  2. No person, firm, or corporation shall:
    1. Forge any official device, mark, or certificate;
    2. Without authorization from the Commissioner, use any official device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;
    3. Contrary to the regulations promulgated by the Commissioner, fail to use or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;
    4. Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the Commissioner or his representative, any official device, or any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate, or any device or label, or any carcass of any animal, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark;
    5. Knowingly make any false statement in any shipper's certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the regulations prescribed by the Commissioner; or
    6. Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed or exempted under this article when, in fact, it has, respectively, not been so inspected and passed or exempted.

(Ga. L. 1969, p. 1028, § 11.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 36A C.J.S., Food, §§ 21, 43.

ALR.

- Constitutionality of statutes, requiring notice by label or otherwise of the fact that product is imported or as to place of production, 124 A.L.R. 572.


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