Iowa Code § 137E.6
Violation misbranding civil penalty
Iowa · Iowa Code Chapter 137E — Food Products Misbranded as Meat Products · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- Iowa Code § 137E.6, Violation misbranding civil penalty, Iowa, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2224916
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:2224916@1- SHA-256
7f87b8a904c3d41cbc1bb05d42927ca871c46b788398491be8c68f90fb39b190
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
1. A food processing plant shall not misbrand a food product as a meat product as provided in section 137E.3 as determined by the department.
2. A food processing plant violating subsection 1 is subject to a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars, not to exceed ten thousand dollars total for violations arising out of the same transaction or occurrence. Each day that a violation continues constitutes a separate offense.
3. The department shall impose the civil penalty provided in subsection 2. A food processing plant may contest the imposition of the civil penalty by initiating a contested case proceeding pursuant to chapter 17A.
4. Civil penalties collected under this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the state.