Cal. FAC § 18842
This is the official text of Cal. FAC § 18842, part of California’s Food and Agricultural Code — regulates farming, food safety, and agricultural commerce.
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Official statutory text
It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any article required to be inspected under this chapter, unless such article has been inspected and passed, or any livestock, poultry, livestock product, or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, which is adulterated or misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or receipt for transportation.
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