Misbranding of Food

Misbranding of Food
If a standard of identity has been set up for a particular food, the food can only contain the ingredient specified in the standard.

If the food is found to only contain the other ingredients or additives, it will be size and destroyed.

As an example, sulfur dioxide is allowed to some foods and might be used to provide good color ketchup.

However, there is a standard of identity for ketchup in which sulfur dioxide is not included.

Therefore, if ketchup were found to contain sulfur dioxide, it would be seized and destroyed.

Foods for which a standard id identity has been established and that do not conform to these standards are destroyed on the premise that they have no identity.

Standards of identity have been set-up for some bakery products, cacao products, cereal flours, and related products. alimentary pastes, milk and cream, cheeses, processed cheeses foods and spreads, some canned fruits, fruit preserves and jellies, some canned shellfish, eggs and egg products, oleomargarine, some canned vegetables, canned tomatoes, tomato products and other foods.

A food misbranded may be wrongly labeled as to weight, portions, or ingredients if no standards of identity has been established for it.

If wholesome, wrongly labeled products need not be destroyed. Instead they can be relabeled to comply with ingredients, weight, and so on and sold.

If the product fails to meet the “fill of container” requirement, it may be relabeled to specify this fact and sold under the new labeled.
Misbranding of Food