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...Food is misbranded within the meaning of sections 3715.01, 3715.02, 3715.022, and 3715.52 to 3715.72 of the Revised Code, if: (A) Its labeling is false or misleading in any particular. (B) It is offered for sale under the name of another food. (C) Its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading. (D) It is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears in type of uniform size and promine...

...y charge fees for issuing and renewing food service operation licenses. Any licensing fee charged shall be used solely for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to food service operations. Any licensing fee charged under this section shall be based on the licensor's costs of regulating food service operations, as determined according to ...

...(A) A licensor may suspend or revoke a food service operation license on determining that the license holder is in violation of any requirement of this chapter or the rules adopted under it applicable to food service operations, including a violation evidenced by the documented failure to maintain sanitary conditions within the operation. (B)(1) Except in the case of a violation that presents an immediate danger to ...

... or local school district may establish food service, provide facilities and equipment, and pay operating costs in the schools under its control for the preparation and serving of lunches, and other meals or refreshments to the pupils, employees of the board of education employed therein, and to other persons taking part in or patronizing any activity in connection with the schools. A board of education that operates...

...(A) A cottage food production operation shall not process acidified foods, low acid canned foods, or potentially hazardous foods. (B) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code specifying the food items a cottage food production operation may produce that are in addition to the food items identified by name in division (A)(19) of section 3715.01 of the Re...

...(A) There is hereby created the retail food safety advisory council. The council shall consist of the director of agriculture or a person the director designates to serve on the director's behalf, the director of health or a person the director designates to serve on the director's behalf, and twelve additional members appointed jointly by the director of agriculture and the director of health, as follows: (1) Three...

...ase consumer confidence in the state's food supply by promoting food safety awareness and education. The efforts of the director of agriculture and director of health shall be made, when appropriate and available, through partnerships with representatives of retail food establishments, representatives of food service operations, and representatives of the academic community, including OSU extension. (B) As p...

...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 beverages, with an equilibrium pH greater than 4.6 and a water activity greater than 0.85, except that tomatoes and tomato products having a finished equilibrium pH less than 4.7 are not low-acid foods. (C) "Acidified foods" means either: (1) Foods that have ...

...(A) The retail food safety advisory council shall meet as necessary to fulfill its duties, which include all the following: (1) Making recommendations for the Ohio uniform food safety code; (2) Examining specific food safety issues raised by the director of agriculture or director of health and making recommendations regarding those issues; (3) Mediating unresolved issues among state agencies about the interpretat...

...equirements; (2) Falsely represent any food products or the contents of any package or container to be constituted and prepared as described in division (A)(1) of this section by having or permitting to be inscribed thereon "kosher," "kosher style," "kosher type," "kosher for passover," "Jewish," or "Hebrew" in any language, or have "kosher," "kosher style," "kosher type," "kosher for passover," "Jewish," or "Hebrew...

... the property to salvage free-of-charge food items remaining on the property for subsequent donations of the food items to, or subsequent distributions of the food items by, an agency or nonprofit organization. (3) "Gleaner" means any person that, with the permission of the owner, lessee, renter, or operator of a farm or other real property, enters the property to salvage free-of-charge food items remaining on the p...

...Food is adulterated within the meaning of sections 3715.01, 3715.02, 3715.022, and 3715.52 to 3715.72 of the Revised Code, if any of the following apply: (A) It bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to health; but in case the substance is not an added substance, the food shall not be considered adulterated if the quantity of the substance in the food does not ordinaril...

...(A) All inspections of food service operations conducted by a licensor under this chapter shall be conducted according to the procedures and schedule of frequency specified in rules adopted under section 3717.51 of the Revised Code. An inspection may be performed only by an individual registered as an environmental health specialist or environmental health specialist in training under Chapter 3776. of the Revised Cod...

...of proposed suspension or revocation of food service operation licenses and appeals of suspension of licenses issued for violations presenting immediate danger to the public health; (B)(1) Surveys conducted by the director to determine whether boards of health are qualified and have the capacity to administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to food service operat...

... means farm animals commonly raised for food, food production, or other agricultural purposes, including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, poultry, and captive deer. "Livestock" does not include invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, domestic pets, animals for use in laboratories or for exhibition, or other animals not commonly raised for food or food production. (NN) "Livestock structure" means a bu...

...s of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses of poultry. (B) "Carcass" means all parts, including viscera, of slaughtered poultry that are capable of being used for human food. (C) "Capable of use as human food" as applied to poultry or poultry products means poultry or a poultry product that is not denatured or otherwise identified as ...

...ry, holding or offering for sale of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; (2) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic; (3) The receipt in commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic 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 ...

...his section, "board of health," "retail food establishment," and "food service operation" have the same meanings as in section 3717.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The embargoing of a food may be performed by a board of health approved under section 3717.11 of the Revised Code to serve as the licensor of retail food establishments or food service operations, the director of health acting under section 3717.11 of the Rev...

...der it and to abide by the Ohio uniform food safety code. If the board licenses or proposes to license retail food establishments, the survey shall be conducted by the director of agriculture. If the board licenses or proposes to license food service operations, the survey shall be conducted by the director of health. Each board shall be surveyed by each director at least once every three years. Surveys shall be c...

...(A) All inspections of retail food establishments conducted by a licensor under this chapter shall be conducted according to the procedures and schedule of frequency specified in rules adopted under section 3717.33 of the Revised Code. An inspection may be performed only by an individual registered as an environmental health specialist or environmental health specialist in training under Chapter 3776. of the Revised ...

...if the substance may, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the laws of this state, be lawfully sold over the counter without a prescription. If a pattern of abuse develops for any nonnarcotic drug sold over the counter, the board may, by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, after a public hearing and a documented study to determine that the substance actually meets the crite...

...romotion, or explanation of the sale of food, food materials, or dietary supplements do not violate division (B) of section 4759.02 of the Revised Code, the sale of food, food materials, or dietary supplements and the marketing and distribution of food, food materials, or dietary supplements and the promotion or explanation of the use of food, food materials, or dietary supplements provided that the promotion or expl...

...egulations 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 administration in 21 C.F.R. 113.3 to 113.100, as amended; (3) Require all canneries thermally processing acidified foods packed in hermetical...

... the context otherwise requires: (A) "Food" means: (1) Articles used for food or drink for humans or animals; (2) Chewing gum; (3) Articles used for components of any such articles. (B) "Establishment" means any business location or building of which any of the following facilities or operations are a part: a frozen food manufacturing facility, chill room, sharp freezing room and facilities, or sharp freez...

...e slaughtered or otherwise prepared for food purposes, meat canneries, sausage factories, smoking or curing operations, and similar places. (D) "Animals" means cattle, calves, sheep, swine, horses, mules, other equines, goats, and other animals specified under division (A) of section 918.12 of the Revised Code. (E) "Carcass" means all parts, including viscera, of slaughtered animals that are capable of being used f...