Md. Code, Health - General § 21–341

(a) A person may not process, sell, or keep for sale, as crab meat, anything that is not crab meat.

(b) A person may not process or sell for human consumption crab meat that:

(1) Contains any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or is otherwise unfit for human consumption;

(2) Has been packed or pasteurized in violation of this subtitle; or

(3) Has been packed, prepared, or held under conditions that may have allowed the crab meat to become:

(i) Contaminated with filth; or

(ii) Injurious to health.

(c) (1) A licensee may not possess, with intent to sell for human consumption, any crab meat, the processing or sale of which would be a violation of this section.

(2) Possession by a licensee of any crab meat, the processing or selling of which would be a violation of this section, is presumptive evidence of intent to sell the crab meat for human consumption.