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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Jones</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 18781 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to agriculture. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Agriculture: meat and poultry products: misbranding.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law provides that a livestock or poultry product is misbranded in each of specified cases, including when its labeling is false or misleading in any particular.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                Section 18781 of the
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                                 is amended to read:
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                                                        <html:p>A livestock or poultry product is misbranded in each of the following cases:</html:p>
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                                                                Its labeling is false or misleading in any particular.
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                                                                It is offered for sale under the name of another food.
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                                                                It is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word “imitation” and, immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated.
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                                                                Its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading.
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