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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 6-501 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="6-501" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Adulterated food.">“Adulterated food” means any food that:<para num="(1)">has been prepared, manufactured, processed, stored, packaged, handled, distributed, or sold under insanitary conditions that reasonably could be expected to have contaminated it;</para>
      <para num="(2)">is considered to be adulterated within the meaning of the Maryland Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">otherwise violates the requirements of the Maryland Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Unwholesome food.">“Unwholesome food” means any food that:<para num="(1)">has absorbed or mixed with deleterious gases, liquids, or solids;</para>
      <para num="(2)">is decomposed, rotten, tainted, or otherwise impure; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">is otherwise in any way:<para num="(i)">deleterious to health;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">liable to introduce, cause, or increase sickness; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">liable to impair or upset functions of the human body.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §64(part)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
