Prohibitions

A. Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall: 1. misbrand or misrepresent any food product as a covered agricultural product; 2. affix a label to any food product that is false or misleading; 3. Represent a food product as meat or a meat product unless the food product is derived from beef, pork, poultry, alligator, farm-raised deer, turtle, domestic rabbit, crawfish, or shrimp. This shall include representing a cell-cultured food product as a meat product; 4. Represent a food product as rice unless the food product is rice or derived from rice; a. This shall include using the term “rice” in the name of the food product when the food product is not rice or derived from rice. 5. Represent a food product as beef or a beef product unless the food product is derived from a domesticated bovine; 6. Represent a food product as pork or a pork product unless the food product is derived from a domesticated swine; 7. Represent a food product as poultry or a poultry product unless the food product is derived from poultry, as defined in this Chapter. 8. Represent a food product as sugar unless the food product is an unaltered plant-based simple sugar or sucrose; 9. Utilize a term that is the same or deceptively similar to a term that has been used or defined historically in reference to another agricultural product. AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 3:4741. HISTORICAL NOTE: Promulgated by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Office of Agro-Consumer Services, Division of Weights and Measures, LR 47:349 (March 2021).