Title 14. Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions — Subtitle 9. Kosher Products

“Food” or “food product” means any food, food product, or food preparation, whether:

“Food” or “food product” includes:

“Mezuzah” means the Jewish religious article that, according to Jewish law, is designed to be attached to the doorpost of a room in a home.

“Mezuzah” includes:

“Represents to the public” means any direct or indirect statement, orally or written, and any letter, word, sign, emblem, insignia, or mark which could reasonably lead a consumer to believe that a representation is being made that the final food product sold to the consumer is kosher, kosher for Passover, or prepared or maintained under rabbinical or other kosher supervision.

“Represents to the public” includes any advertisement.

“Tefillin” means the Jewish religious article, also known as “phylacteries”, that, according to Jewish law, is designed to be worn on the upper arm and head during morning prayers.

“Tefillin” includes:

A person that represents to the public that any unpackaged food that is sold or served is kosher, kosher for Passover, or under rabbinical or other kosher supervision shall prominently and conspicuously display on the premises on which the food is sold or served a complete disclosure statement.

The Division shall develop a form for disclosure statements and shall make the form available to any person upon request.

The disclosure statement shall:

A person shall conform its practices with respect to the sale or serving of unpackaged food that is represented to the public as kosher, kosher for Passover, or under rabbinical or other kosher supervision.

In this subsection, “Hebrew” symbol means:

In connection with any place of business that sells or offers for sale any food, a person may not display, whether in a window, door, or other location on or in the place of business, in any handbill or other printed matter distributed in or outside of the place of business, or otherwise in any advertisement, any Hebrew symbol, or any other representation to the public that the place of business is kosher, kosher for Passover, or under rabbinical or other kosher supervision, unless the person also displays in conjunction with the Hebrew symbol or such other representation, in English letters of at least the same size as the characters used in the Hebrew symbol, the words “we sell kosher meat and food only”, “we sell nonkosher meat and food only”, or “we sell both kosher and nonkosher meat and food”, as the appropriate representation may be.

In this subsection, “fresh” means unprocessed other than by salting or soaking.

A person may not sell or offer for sale, as kosher, any fresh meat or poultry unless the words “soaked and salted” or “not soaked and salted”, as the appropriate case may be, is marked:

In advance of sale, is put up or packaged, in any manner, in units suitable for retail sale; and

Is not intended for consumption at its point of manufacture.

It has a kosher identification securely attached to the outside of the package; and

This identification was attached to the package by the producer or packer of the product at his place of business.

In any language, the words “kosher”, “parve”, “glatt”, or “rabbinical supervision”;

Any other word or symbol representing to the public that the product is kosher, kosher for Passover, or under rabbinical or other kosher supervision; or

The English letters “K”, “KP”, “KD”, “KM”, “KF”, “KOS”, or “RS”, except as part of a registered trademark.

The name and address of the manufacturer or importer; and

If the mezuzah or tefillin, in the form reasonably expected to be sold at retail, is not intended to be represented as kosher, the word “nonkosher”.