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16.__Meat broker.__"Meat broker" means a person engaged in the
business of buying or selling on commission meat, meat food
products or the carcasses or parts or products of carcasses or
otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of the articles other than
for the meat broker's own account or as an employee of another
person.

 
17.__Meat food products.__"Meat food products" means products
fit for human food that are made wholly or in part from the meat
or other portions of the carcass of an animal, excepting products
that contain meat or other portions of the carcass only in a
relatively small proportion or that historically are not
considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry and
that are exempt from definition as meat food products by the
commissioner under conditions the commissioner prescribes to
ensure that the meat or other portions of the carcass contained
in the products are not adulterated and that the products are not
represented as meat food products.

 
18.__Misbranded.__"Misbranded" applied to a carcass, meat or a
meat food product means that:

 
A.__Its labeling is false or misleading;

 
B.__It is offered for sale under the name of another food;

 
C.__It is an imitation of another food, unless its label
bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word
"imitation" and immediately after the word "imitation" the
name of the food imitated;

 
D.__Its container is made, formed or filled so that it is
misleading;

 
E.__Its package or container does not bear a label showing:

 
(1)__The name and place of business of the
manufacturer, packer or distributor; and

 
(2)__An accurate statement of the quantity of the
contents in terms of weight, measure or numerical
count, except that under this subparagraph reasonable
variations may be permitted and exemptions for small
packages may be established by the commissioner by
rule;

 
F.__A word, statement or other information required by this
chapter to appear on the label or other labeling is not placed on
the label prominently and in terms likely to be


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