{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-6-187","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-187","heading":"Labeling of cans, receptacles or coverings - Standards -","body":"False or misleading markings - Hearings and appeals.\n\n(a) When any meat or meat food product prepared for intrastate\n\ncommerce which has been inspected as hereinbefore provided and\n\nmarked \"Oklahoma Inspected and Passed\" shall be placed or packed in\n\nany can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in any\n\nestablishment where inspection under the provisions of this act is\n\nmaintained, the person, firm, or corporation preparing said product\n\nshall cause a label to be attached to said can, pot, tin, canvas, or\n\nother receptable or covering, under supervision of an inspector,\n\nwhich label shall state that the contents thereof have been\n\n\"Oklahoma Inspected and Passed\" under the provisions of this act,\n\nand no inspection and examination of meat or meat food products\n\ndeposited or inclosed in cans, tins, pots, canvas, or other\n\nreceptable or covering in any establishment where inspection under\n\nthe provisions of this act is maintained shall be deemed to be\n\ncomplete until such meat or meat food products have been sealed or\n\ninclosed in said can, tin, pot, canvas, or other receptacle or\n\ncovering under the supervision of an inspector.\n\n(b) All carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food\n\nproducts inspected at any establishment under the authority of this\n\nact and found to be not adulterated, shall at the time they leave\n\nthe establishment bear, in distinctly legible form, directly thereon\n\nor on their containers, as the Board may require, the information\n\nrequired under paragraph (k) of Section 1 of this act.\n\n(c) The Board, whenever it determines such action is necessary\n\nfor the protection of the public, may prescribe: (1) the styles and\n\nsizes of type to be used with respect to material required to be\n\nincorporated in labeling to avoid false or misleading labeling of\n\nany articles or animals subject to Sections 1 through 20 of this\n\nact; (2) definitions and standards of identity or composition for\n\narticles subject to Sections 1 through 16 and standards of fill of\n\ncontainer for such articles not inconsistent with any such standards\n\nestablished under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or under\n\nthe Federal Meat Inspection Act, and there shall be consultation\n\nbetween the Board and the Secretary of Agriculture of the United\n\nStates prior to the issuance of such standards to avoid\n\ninconsistency between such standards and the Federal standards.\n\n(d) No article subject to Sections 1 through 16 of this act\n\nshall be sold or offered for sale by any person, firm, or\n\ncorporation, in intrastate commerce, under any name or other marking\n\nor labeling which is false or misleading, or in any container of a\n\nmisleading form or size, but established trade names and other\n\nmarking and labeling and containers which are not false or\n\nmisleading and which are approved by the Board are permitted.\n\n(e) If the Board has reason to believe that any marking or\n\nlabeling or the size or form of any container in use or proposed for\n\nuse with respect to any article subject to Sections 1 through 16 is\n\nfalse or misleading in any particular, it may direct that such use\n\nbe withheld, unless the marking, labeling, or container is modified\n\nin such manner as it may prescribe so that it will not be false or\n\nmisleading. If the person, firm, or corporation using or proposing\n\nto use the marking, labeling or container does not accept the\n\ndetermination of the Board, such person, firm, or corporation may\n\nrequest a hearing, but the use of the marking, labeling, or\n\ncontainer shall, if the Board so directs, be withheld pending\n\nhearing and final determination by the Board. Any such\n\ndetermination by the Board shall be conclusive unless, within thirty\n\n(30) days after receipt of notice of such final determination, the\n\nperson, firm, or corporation adversely affected thereby appeals to\n\nthe District Court of Oklahoma County.","path":["OK Code","Title 2"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os2.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"ee280a28a7e745de940fc1d780822510fedabbe22b565bb5bc64c0a8a1c20873","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-6-186","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-6-188"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}