No person shall sell or exchange or offer or expose for sale or exchange or transport for sale any fruit represented as having been exposed to “controlled atmosphere”, or “modified atmosphere”, alone or with other words, or shall so use any such term or form of words or symbols of similar import on any container or lot of fruit advertised, sold, offered for sale or transported for sale within this state unless such fruit has been kept in a room or storage building with not more than five per cent oxygen for a minimum of sixty days.
(1963, P.A. 72, S. 1; P.A. 97-217, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 97-217 changed the time period for storage of fruit under this section from 90 to 60 days.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22 - Agriculture. Domestic Animals
Chapter 423 - Grading and Marketing of Farm Products
Section 22-27. - Establishment of standards. Market information.
Section 22-28. - Labels for standard grades.
Section 22-29. - Notice of establishment to be published.
Section 22-30. - Penalty for improper use of brand name.
Section 22-31. - Inspection. Certification.
Section 22-32. - Reports by persons engaged in wholesale marketing. Penalty.
Section 22-34. - Products sold under names designated by commissioner.
Section 22-37. - License for buying poultry. Bond.
Section 22-37a. - Connecticut Egg Council, Inc. Establishment of fund. Duties of commissioner.
Section 22-38a. - Promotion of Connecticut-Grown farm products. Regulations.
Section 22-38c. - Expand and grow Connecticut agriculture account.
Section 22-38d. - Farm to school program. Connecticut-Grown for Connecticut Kids Week.
Section 22-39. - Penalty for hindering commissioner.
Section 22-39a. - Controlled atmosphere storage of fruit.
Section 22-39b. - Registration.
Section 22-39c. - Daily determinations of air components.
Section 22-39d. - Record. Report. Mechanical breakdowns.
Section 22-39e. - Inspection by Commissioner of Agriculture.
Section 22-41. - Grades of eggs.
Section 22-42. - Weight and size requirements.
Section 22-43. - Requirements of advertising of eggs.
Section 22-44. - Terms used on eggs.
Section 22-45. - Prohibited advertising, labeling, offering or selling of eggs.
Section 22-46. - Sale of inedible eggs. Licenses.
Section 22-48. - Enforcement. Inspection. Notice of violation or order. Regulations.
Section 22-51. - Enforcement. Grades and standards.
Section 22-52. - Marking of packages.
Section 22-53. - Taking of samples.
Section 22-54a to 22-54n. - Apple market orders in effect before July 1, 1989.
Section 22-54o. - Definitions.
Section 22-54p. - Powers and duties of commissioner. Regulations.
Section 22-54r. - Assessment. Civil penalty.