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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="21-207" title_number="21" title_name="Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Maryland Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In addition to any other ground that may be applicable under this title, a food is considered to be adulterated for purposes of this subtitle if the standards in this section or in § 21-208 or § 21-209 of this subtitle apply.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A food is adulterated if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>It contains any poisonous or otherwise deleterious substance that, in the quantity present, reasonably would be expected to make it injurious to health;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>It contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>That is not a food or color additive; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The particular use of which has not been found safe as provided under § 21-239 of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>It is or contains any food additive or color additive the particular use of which has not been found safe as provided under § 21-239 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Any part of it is a diseased, contaminated, filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>It was produced, prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions that reasonably would be expected to have:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Contaminated it with filth; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Caused it to be diseased, unwholesome, or injurious to health;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Any part of its container is composed of any poisonous or otherwise deleterious substance that reasonably would be expected to have caused the food to be injurious to health;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>It has been subjected intentionally to radiation, unless the use of the radiation conforms to that allowed by a rule or regulation under the federal act or under § 21-239 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>At any time after its manufacturing, processing, or packaging, it was refrozen after having been permitted to thaw from a prior freezing; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>It otherwise is unfit as food for human beings.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
