§ 3.1-388. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Prohibited acts
The following acts and the causing thereof within the Commonwealth are hereby prohibited:
(a) The manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding or offering for sale of any food that is adulterated or misbranded.
(b) The adulteration or misbranding of any food.
(c) The receipt in commerce of any food that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise.
(d) The dissemination of any false advertisement.
(e) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, as authorized by § 3.1-399.
(f) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking concerning a food, which guaranty or undertaking is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of the person residing, or having a place of business, or an agent or representative on whom process may be served, in the Commonwealth, from or through whom he received the food in good faith.
(g) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to, a food, if such act is done while such article is held for sale and results in such article being misbranded.
(h) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or without proper authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label or other identification device authorized or required by regulations promulgated under the provisions of this article.
(i) The use of sulfiting agents as preservatives on raw fruits and vegetables being offered for sale to the public for human consumption.
(Code 1950, § 3-308; 1966, c. 702; 1986, c. 200.)
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