Md. Code Ann., Health-Gen. § 21-341
Possession or sale of unfit crab meat prohibited
Effective Jan 1, 1988Added as Health-Environmental § 4-341 by Acts 1987, c. 297, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988. Transferred to Health-General § 21-341 by Acts 1987, c. 306, § 2, eff. July 1, 1987.State of Maryland
- (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.
Added as Health-Environmental § 4-341 by Acts 1987, c. 297, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988. Transferred to Health-General § 21-341 by Acts 1987, c. 306, § 2, eff. July 1, 1987.