69.04.930 - Frozen fish and meat -- Labeling requirements -- Exceptions.

Frozen fish and meat — Labeling requirements — Exceptions.

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell at retail or display for sale at retail any food fish as defined in RCW 77.08.022 or shellfish as defined in RCW 77.08.010, any meat, or any meat food product which has been frozen at any time, without having the package or container in which the same is sold bear a label clearly discernible to a customer that such product has been frozen and whether or not the same has since been thawed. No such food fish or shellfish, meat or meat food product shall be sold unless in such a package or container bearing said label: PROVIDED, That this section shall not include any of the aforementioned food or food products that have been frozen prior to being smoked, cured, cooked or subjected to the heat of commercial sterilization.

[2003 c 39 § 28; 1999 c 291 § 32; 1988 c 254 § 8; 1983 1st ex.s. c 46 § 179; 1975 c 39 § 1.]