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...(A) The attorney general, the prosecuting attorney of the county, or the city director of law where a violation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, upon the request of the respective board of health of the health district, the legislative authority of the political subdivision in which a violation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, or the director of environmental protection, shall prosecute to terminati...

...(A) The board of health of a health district may make orders in accordance with section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code to a permit or license holder or other person to abate, within a specified, reasonable time, a violation of any section of this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or a term or condition of a permit or license issued under it. The director of environmental protection may issue enforcement order...

...(A) No person shall violate any section of this chapter. (B) No person shall violate a rule adopted under this chapter. (C) No person shall violate an order issued under this chapter. Violation of an order issued by a board of health under this chapter is not also a violation of section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable. (D) No person who holds a permit or license issued under this ch...

...The director of environmental protection shall establish and maintain a database or databases composed of public information, including, but not limited to, the record made under section 3714.08 of the Revised Code of inspection of each construction and demolition debris facility, information from the annual survey of each health district made under section 3714.09 or 3734.08 of the Revised Code, as applicable, and g...

...Whoever knowingly violates section 3714.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. Each day of violation is a separate offense.

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association. (2) "Food" means: (a) Articles used for food or drink for humans or animals; (b) Chewing gum; (c) Articles used for components of any such articles. (3) "Drug" means: (a) Articles recognized in the United States pharmacopoeia and national formulary, or any supplement to them; (b) Articles intended for use ...

...(A) When one of the following changes occurs under federal law with respect to a biological product or interchangeable biological product, the change is automatically effected under this chapter and Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code, subject to any rule adopted under division (B) of this section to the contrary: (1) An article is added to or removed from the definition of biological product in subsection (i) of sect...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish, when otherwise not established by a law of this state, definitions for a food or class of food and standards for the following items as they pertain to the food or class of food: (1) Quality, identity, purity, grade, and strength; (2) Packaging and labeling; (3) Food processing equipment; (4) Proc...

...(A) As used in this section, "food processing establishment" means a premises or part of a premises where food is processed, packaged, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled for distribution to another location or for sale at wholesale. "Food processing establishment" includes the activities of a bakery, confectionery, cannery, bottler, warehouse, or distributor, and the activities of an entity that receives or s...

...(A) All food products, including those produced and packaged by a cottage food production operation, and all packaged maple syrup, sorghum, and honey, are subject to food sampling conducted by the director of agriculture, or a representative the director authorizes, to determine if a food product is misbranded or adulterated. A component of the food sampling conducted under this section may include the performance of...

...(A) A cottage food production operation and a maple syrup or sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code shall label each of their food products and include the following information on the label of each of their food products: (1) The name and address of the business of the cottage food production operation, processor, or beekeeper; (2) The name of the food pro...

...(A) A maple syrup or sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code may request that the director of agriculture conduct a voluntary inspection of the processor's or beekeeper's facilities. After the inspection is completed, if the inspector determines that the facilities comply with the rules adopted by the director pursuant to division (B) of this section, the proc...

...(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...

...The director of agriculture, in performing duties under this chapter, may enter a creamery, factory, store salesroom, pharmacy, laboratory, or other place where the director believes or has reason to believe drugs, food, or drink is made, prepared, dispensed, sold, or offered for sale; examine the books therein; and open a cask, tub, jar, bottle, or other package containing or supposed to contain a drug or an article...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Certificate of health and freesale" means a document issued by the director of agriculture that certifies to states and countries receiving products that the products have been produced and warehoused in this state under sanitary conditions at a food processing establishment or at a place of business of a manufacturer of over-the-counter drugs or cosmetics, as applicable, that has b...

... (A)(1) As used in this section, "food processing establishment" has the same meaning as in section 3715.021 of the Revised Code. (2) A person that operates a food processing establishment shall register the establishment annually with the director of agriculture. The person shall submit an application for registration or renewal on a form prescribed and provided by the director. Except as provided in division (G) ...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 3715.051 to 3715.054 and 3715.06 of the Revised Code: (1) "Consumer product" means any food or drink that is consumed or used by humans and any drug, including a drug that may be provided legally only pursuant to a prescription, that is intended to be consumed or used by humans. (2) "Drug," "licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs," "pharmacy," "pres...

...(A) A retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs that sells, offers to sell, holds for sale, delivers, or otherwise provides a pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product to the public shall maintain a log book of all purchases of pseudoephedrine products or ephedrine products made without a valid prescription. The log book may be maintained in a tangible format, in an electronic format, or in both fo...

...The duty to comply with this section is subject to the conditions specified in section 3715.053 of the Revised Code. (A)(1) Beginning June 1, 2013, a retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs shall submit the following information to the national precursor log exchange regarding each sale of pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product that is not made pursuant to a valid prescription: (a) The purc...

...A retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs is not required to comply with section 3715.052 of the Revised Code if one or more of the following are the case: (A) There is any charge from the national precursor log exchange for using the exchange, including a charge for obtaining access to the exchange, submitting information to the exchange, or receiving a stop-sale alert from the exchange. (B) Ther...

...A retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs is not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property resulting from any act or omission in carrying out the duties specified in sections 3715.05, 3715.051, and 3715.052 of the Revised Code regarding the sale of a pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product, unless the act or omission is negligent or reckless or constit...

...(A) Each retailer, terminal distributor of dangerous drugs, pharmacy, prescriber, or wholesaler that sells, offers to sell, holds for sale, delivers, or otherwise provides any pseudoephedrine product and that discovers the theft or loss of any pseudoephedrine product in an amount of more than nine grams per incident of theft or loss shall notify all of the following upon discovery of the theft or loss: (1) The state...

... A flavoring extract is adulterated within the meaning of sections 3715.01 to 3715.34 of the Revised Code, if, when sold under or by any one of the following names it differs from the standard fixed therefor by this section: (A) Almond extract is the flavoring extract prepared from oil of bitter almonds, free from hydrocyanic acid, and shall contain not less than one per cent by volume of oil of bitter almonds. (...

... No person shall sell any diphtheria antitoxin produced and distributed by the department of health.

...As used in this section: "Quality assurance period" means the period of time following the completion of normal manufacturing, processing, and packaging procedures during which a food product subjected to normal conditions of exposure will maintain conformity with all of the characteristics normally associated with the food product and will provide the benefits for which the food product is normally purchased. Food ...