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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 6-505.1 Dated food products.">
  <section prefix="§" num="6-505.1" heading="Dated food products.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Definitions.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">In this section, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Dated food.">“Dated food” means any food that contains an expiration date on its label or packaging.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Expiration date.">“Expiration date” means:<para num="(1)">any date designated as an “expires on” date, “sell by” date, “pull by” date, “use by” date, or “best if used by” date; or</para>
        <para num="(2)">any similar time guide for the sale or use of a food product by food service facilities or consumers.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Notice after expiration date.">
      <para num="(1)">No food service facility may sell or offer for sale any dated food after its expiration date unless that food is:<para num="(i)">segregated from its non-expired food counterpart; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">accompanied by a conspicuous notice that states:  “This Food is Being Sold Past Its Expiration Date”.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">The notice required by this subsection must be:<para num="(i)">on a sign at least 11" by 14"; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">printed in letters at least 1" high.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Perishable, etc., foods.">Nothing in this section authorizes:<para num="(1)">the sale of any perishable food, such as milk, cheese, meat, eggs, and baby food, past its expiration date; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">the sale or possession of any adulterated or unwholesome food.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Altering, etc., expiration date.">No food service facility may alter, remove, cover, disguise, or otherwise obscure the expiration date of any dated food.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 02-438</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
