2025 Session Last amended: 2000 session

§ 31A.16 — Storing and Handling Conditions

Plain-Language Summary

Preserves the authority of other state agencies and does not limit any other state or federal laws relating to public health and food safety.

31A.16 STORING AND HANDLING CONDITIONS.

The commissioner may adopt rules prescribing conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, poultry, poultry food products, meat, and meat food products of animals usable as human food must be stored or otherwise handled by a person in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting them, in or for intrastate commerce, if the commissioner considers action necessary to assure that the articles will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer.

History:

1969 c 225 s 16; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1; 2000 c 477 s 49

History: History: 1969 c 225 s 16; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1; 2000 c 477 s 49

Practical Notes

When this applies: When determining how this chapter interacts with other food safety laws. Who this affects: State agencies and regulated parties. Key points: This chapter supplements rather than replaces other food safety and public health laws.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes