Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 3715 · 85 active provisions
(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 pharmacopo…
(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…
(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, p…
(A) As used in this section: (1) "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, confec…
(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 adult…
(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 busines…
(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 facilit…
(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 ad…
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 op…
(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 pla…
(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…
(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.…
(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 prescriptio…
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 p…
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, submit…
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 pseudoephedrin…
(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…
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 hydro…
No person shall sell any diphtheria antitoxin produced and distributed by the department of health. Last updated April 19, 2022 at 4:46 PM
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…
No dealer, slaughterer, or processor of meat or meat products for human consumption shall kill or have in his possession for the purpose of killing, a calf less than four weeks old or have in his possession the carcass of a calf not sufficiently mature to be fit for human consumption. The carcass of such calf may be co…
No person shall manufacture for sale, sell, or offer for sale, candy with an admixture of terra alba, barytes, talc, or other mineral substance, or with poisonous colors or flavors or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental to health.No manufacturer of or dealer in candy, shall refuse, upon demand and a tender of…
(A) As used in this section and section 3715.25 of the Revised Code:(1) "Grade" means standards for grades of maple syrup adopted by the United States department of agriculture and accepted by the director of agriculture or grades as defined in rules adopted by the director.(2) "Maple products" means maple syrup, maple…
(A) No person shall manufacture, offer for sale, possess with intent to sell, sell, or deliver a maple product that is adulterated as described in section 3715.59 of the Revised Code or is misbranded as described in section 3715.60 of the Revised Code.(B) No person shall offer for sale, possess with intent to sell, sel…
(A) As used in this section, "cider" means the unfermented juice, obtained by mechanically expressing the juice from sound, mature, non-citrus fruit, from which is removed excess pulp and seeds, other than embryonic seeds and small fragments of seeds that cannot be separated by good manufacturing practice. The cider ma…