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O.C.G.A. § 26-2-22

Prohibited acts

ize, and correct the Code, substituted Ga

Statutes or ordinances in relation to confectionery, 58 A.L.R. 293.

Provisions of statutes against misbranding or false labeling of food, drug, or cosmetic products, as applicable to literature other than that attached to product itself, 143 A.L.R. 1453.

The following acts and the causing thereof within this state are

prohibited:

(1) The manufacture, sale or delivery, holding, storage, or offering for sale of any food that is adulterated or misbranded;

(2) The adulteration or misbranding of any food;

(3) The receipt in commerce of any food that is adulterated or

misbranded and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise;

(4) The sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of any article in violation of Code Section 26-2-27;

(5) The dissemination of any false advertisement;

(5.1) The failure to comply with testing, reporting, or recordkeeping requirements provided by or pursuant to Code Section 26-2-27.1">26-2-27.1:

(6) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, as authorized by Code Section 26-2-36;

(7) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking, 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 in the State of Georgia from whom he received in good faith the food;

(8) The removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in violation of Code Section 26-2-38;

(9) 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 adulterated or misbranded;

(10) 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 pursuant to this article; and

(11) The operation of a food sales establishment in violation of Code Section 26-2-25.

Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.