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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 6-505 Frozen food regulations.">
  <section prefix="§" num="6-505" heading="Frozen food regulations.">
    <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="Defrost.">“Defrost” means to allow any frozen food to thaw so that it is not readily recognizable as frozen food.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Frozen food.">“Frozen food” means any food that has been kept at or below 0° F.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Representing defrosted food as fresh prohibited.">No food service facility may represent or advertise as fresh any frozen food that has been allowed to defrost.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Selling certain defrosted food prohibited.">No food service facility may sell or offer for sale any food designed to be sold frozen (such as “TV dinners”, packaged fruits, and frozen desserts) if it has been allowed to defrost.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Certain defrosted food to be labeled.">No food service facility may sell or offer for sale any meat, fish, seafood, or poultry that, in whole or in part, has been frozen and then allowed to defrost unless a  notice  stating “this product has been frozen and thawed” is:<para num="(1)">conspicuously displayed on a sign; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">attached to each package or item of meat, fish, seafood, or poultry.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §67</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-672</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
