§ 3.1-388.1. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Removal of certain labels from meat packaging prohibited; pena...
If any person holding or offering for retail sale any meat, poultry or seafood in packaged form affixes to such food a label containing a date by which such food is to be sold, it shall be unlawful to willfully remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, or obscure the dated portion of the label on the package, unless the dated portion of the label is removed in connection with the repackaging of such food, or to correct bona fide typographical errors. If the dated portion of the label is removed and a replacement label is attached when such food is repackaged, the replacement label shall bear the original date by which the food is to be sold or an earlier date. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
This section shall not apply to meat, poultry and seafood that is canned or cured.
(1993, c. 106.)
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