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...If, after inspection, it is found that a bakery is not constructed, maintained, or operated, or the distribution of its products is not conducted, in accordance with sections 911.01 to 911.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code, notice in writing shall be given to the owner or manager, stating the delinquency, and fixing a reasonable time within which the same shall be remedied and providing for a hearing to any party in...

...In case a bakery is unfit for the production and handling of food or dangerous to the health of its employees, the state or city department making the inspection may order the bakery, or such part as may be found so unfit or so dangerous, closed. Any aggrieved person shall have the right to be heard before said department or board and shall also have a right of appeal before or after the execution of such order but w...

...Bread shall not be sold or offered or exposed for sale otherwise than by weight and shall be manufactured for sale and sold only in units of not less than twelve ounces. Loaves of bread weighing more than twelve ounces may only be manufactured for sale and sold in increments of two ounces, beginning with the twelve-ounce minimum weight. When multiple loaves are baked, each unit of the loaf shall conform to the weight...

...The director of agriculture shall prescribe such rules and regulations as are necessary to enforce section 911.18 of the Revised Code, including reasonable tolerances or variations within which all weights shall be kept. The tolerances or variations shall not exceed one ounce per pound under the standard unit for single loaves. The tolerance permitted in the weighing of twenty-five or more loaves shall not exceed one...

...No person shall violate any rule or regulation adopted under sections 911.01 to 911.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 911.31 to 911.35, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Flour" includes and shall be limited to the foods commonly known in the milling and baking industries as: (1) White flour, also known as wheat flour or plain flour; (2) Bromated flour; (3) Self-rising flour, also known as self-rising white flour or self-rising wheat flour; (4) Phosphated flour, also known as phosphated white flour or phos...

...(A) No person shall manufacture, mix, compound, sell, or offer for sale, flour for human consumption in this state unless the following vitamins and minerals are contained in each pound of such flour: (1) Not less than two and not more than two and five-tenths milligrams of thiamine; (2) Not less than one and two-tenths and not more than one and five-tenths milligrams of riboflavin; (3) Not less than sixteen and n...

...No person shall manufacture, bake, sell, or offer for sale, for human consumption in this state, any white bread or rolls unless the following vitamins and minerals are contained in each pound of such bread or rolls: (A) Not less than one and one-tenth and not more than one and eight-tenths milligrams of thiamine; (B) Not less than seven-tenths and not more than one and six-tenths milligrams of riboflavin; (C) Not...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall enforce sections 911.31 to 911.35, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and shall make, amend, or rescind rules, regulations, and orders for the efficient enforcement of such sections. (B) Whenever the vitamin and mineral requirements of such sections no longer conform with the legally established standards governing the interstate shipment of enriched flour and enriched white bread ...

...Sections 911.31 to 911.34, inclusive, of the Revised Code were intended to promote the public health, safety, and welfare, and such sections shall be liberally construed to effectuate this purpose.

...(A) Whoever violates sections 911.01 to 911.20 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates sections 911.31 to 911.35 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

...As used in sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code: (A) "Cannery" means a place or building where fruits, vegetables, or specialty products are packed in hermetically sealed containers and thermally sterilized and the products of which are placed on the market for general consumption as human food, regardless of where the product is sold in commerce. (B) "Low-acid foods" means any foods, other than alcoholic ...

...No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in the business of operating a cannery without obtaining a license for the operation of each cannery from the director of agriculture. In order to obtain a license, an application shall be made on a form prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied by a fee of two hundred dollars. The director shall thereupon cause an investigation to be made. If the applicant is s...

...All licenses issued under section 913.02 of the Revised Code shall be renewed annually by the last day of June pursuant to this section and the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The renewal fee for each license shall be paid by the applicant for such renewal to the treasurer of state.

...All vegetable, fruit, and specialty products canneries shall be under the supervision of and subject to the rules of the director of agriculture. At such times as the director considers proper, he shall cause to be inspected all canneries where fruits, vegetables, or specialty products are packed and preserved, and shall require the correction of any violation of sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code or any r...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code which: (1) Require all canneries to comply with regulations adopted by the United States food and drug administration in 21 C.F.R. 117, as applicable; (2) Require all canneries thermally processing low-acid foods packed in hermetically sealed containers to comply with regulations adopted by the United States food and drug adm...

...The director of agriculture shall appoint inspectors of canneries who have a thorough knowledge of the canning business. The inspectors shall: (A) Visit and inspect canneries as often as the director considers necessary; (B) See that canneries and the operation thereof comply with sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code, and with the rules adopted by the director; (C) Make reports of inspection to a person d...

...As used in sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Soft drink" means any nonalcoholic flavored carbonated beverage, soda, soda water, or fruitade, any nonalcoholic flavored still beverage, artificial waters whether carbonated or not, and bottled table waters, seltzer, or club soda. (B) "Soft drink flavors" means any type of soda water flavor, or beverage base, syrup, extract, concentra...

...(A) The director of agriculture may issue licenses as required by sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code, may make the inspections and registrations required by those sections, and may prescribe the form of application to be filed under this section. (B) No person shall manufacture or bottle for sale within this state any soft drink in closed containers unless the person has a license issued by the director. ...

...All licenses issued under section 913.23 of the Revised Code shall be renewed annually by the last day of March pursuant to this section and the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...(A) All nonalcoholic flavored carbonated beverages or soda waters shall be prepared from a sweetening ingredient or nonnutritive sweetener, flavoring, potable carbonated water, with or without harmless color, and with or without acidulation by the use of harmless organic acids, or pure phosphoric acid; all nonalcoholic flavored still beverages and fruitades shall be prepared from a sweetening ingredient or nonnutriti...

...(A) Whenever synthetic flavors are used as a substitute for natural flavors in soft drinks or soft drink flavors prepared for sale, sold, or offered for sale, such products shall be labeled "artificially flavored" or with an equivalent designation approved by the director of agriculture. (B) Any word, statement, or other information required by sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to app...

...No person, within this state, shall manufacture for sale, sell, or offer for sale any soft drink or soft drink flavor which is adulterated. Any such soft drink or soft drink flavor is adulterated if it is compounded or manufactured contrary to sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or if it contains any added substance or ingredient which, as used, may be poisonous or injurious to health.

...The director of agriculture shall enforce sections 913.01 to 913.05 and 913.22 to 913.26 of the Revised Code, and the director shall adopt rules as the director considers necessary for the administration and enforcement of such sections.

...No proprietor, owner, or manager of a bakery, confectionary, creamery, dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, laboratory, hotel, restaurant, eating house, packing house, slaughterhouse, ice cream factory, canning factory, or place where a food product is manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, produced, or sold for any purpose, shall fail to place it in a clean and sanitary condition within ten days aft...