§2514-A.__Labeling

1.__Containers.__When meat or a meat food product prepared for intrastate commerce that has been inspected and marked "Maine Inspected and Passed" is placed or packed in a can, pot, tin or other receptacle or covering in an establishment where inspection under this chapter is maintained, the person preparing the product shall attach a label to the receptacle or covering under supervision of an inspector.__The label must state that the contents have been "Maine Inspected and Passed" under this chapter.__The inspection and examination of meat or a meat food product deposited or enclosed in such a receptacle or covering in an establishment where inspection under this chapter is maintained is not considered complete until the meat or meat food product has been sealed or enclosed in that receptacle or covering under the supervision of an inspector.

2.__Information.__At the time they leave the establishment, all carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products inspected at an establishment and found to be not adulterated must bear, in distinctly legible form directly on those articles or on their containers as the commissioner requires, the information required under section 2511-A, subsection 18.

3.__Standards.__The commissioner may establish by rule: