Section § 13730

Explanation

This law gives the department and county officers the authority to check and enforce regulations on certain products in California. They can take samples and inspect any product related to the chapter, whether it's being made, stored, or sold. They can enter places like factories and warehouses during business hours to inspect items and gather samples legally.

The department and each county sealer shall enforce the provisions of this chapter, and may sample, inspect, analyze, and test any product referred to in this chapter manufactured, packed, stored, sold, or distributed within this state. The department, through its agents, has free access by all legal means during business hours to all premises, buildings, vehicles, cars, and vessels used in the manufacture, packing, storage, sale, or transportation of, and may, by legal means, open any box, carton, parcel, or container of, any product referred to in this chapter and take therefrom samples for analysis or for evidence.

Section § 13731

Explanation

This law says that the department and county officers can stop the sale of products that are contaminated or wrongly labeled. They must provide a written order to the store selling it, and also to the product's distributor or manufacturer.

The department and each county sealer is authorized to order off-sale any product referred to in this chapter which is adulterated or mislabeled. The off-sale order shall be given in writing to the retail seller and the distributor or manufacturer of the product.