3.2-5134 - Condemnation of unsafe food by Commissioner. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-5134. Condemnation of unsafe food by Commissioner.

If the Commissioner finds in any room, building, vehicle of transportation,or other structure, any meat, seafood, poultry, vegetable, fruit, or otherperishable articles of food, which are unsound or contain any filthy,decomposed, or putrid substance, or that may be poisonous or deleterious tohealth or otherwise unsafe, then the articles of food shall be declared to bea nuisance, and the Commissioner shall condemn or destroy the unsafe articlesof food or render the unsafe articles of food to be unsalable as human food.

(Code 1950, § 3-311; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-391; 2008, c. 860.)