Florida Statutes
Chapter 500 - Food Products
500.04 - Prohibited Acts.


(1) The manufacture, sale or delivery, holding or offering for sale of any food that is adulterated or misbranded.
(2) The adulteration or misbranding of any food.
(3) The receipt in commerce of any food that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise.
(4) The sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of any article in violation of s. 500.12.
(5) The dissemination of any false advertisement.
(6) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, as authorized by s. 500.147.
(7) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking with respect to a food, which guaranty or undertaking is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of, the person residing in this state from whom she or he received in good faith the food.
(8) The removal, disposal, or use of a detained or embargoed article or food processing equipment in violation of s. 500.172.
(9) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of a food, or the doing of any other act with respect to a food, if such act is done while such article is held for sale and such act results in such article being misbranded.
(10) Forging; counterfeiting; simulating; falsely representing; or, without proper authority, using any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other identification device authorized or required by rules adopted under this chapter.
(11) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling information, whether in coded form or otherwise, identifying the article’s expiration date or similar date, date of manufacture, or manufacturing or distribution lot or batch, if such act is done while such article is held for sale.
History.—s. 3, ch. 19656, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 4151(667); s. 2, ch. 57-167; s. 1, ch. 70-994; s. 6, ch. 82-225; s. 120, ch. 83-218; s. 5, ch. 87-388; s. 9, ch. 92-180; s. 5, ch. 94-180; s. 602, ch. 97-103; s. 17, ch. 97-220.

Structure Florida Statutes

Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII - Regulation of Trade, Commerce, Investments, and Solicitations

Chapter 500 - Food Products

500.01 - Florida Food Safety Act; Short Title.

500.02 - Purpose of Chapter.

500.03 - Definitions; Construction; Applicability.

500.032 - Declaration of Policy and Cooperation Among Departments.

500.033 - Florida Food Safety and Food Defense Advisory Council.

500.04 - Prohibited Acts.

500.09 - Rulemaking; Analytical Work.

500.10 - Food Deemed Adulterated.

500.11 - Food Deemed Misbranded.

500.115 - Advertisement of Food Deemed False.

500.12 - Food Permits; Building Permits.

500.121 - Disciplinary Procedures.

500.13 - Addition of Poisonous or Deleterious Substance to Food.

500.147 - Inspection of Food Establishments, Food Records, and Vehicles.

500.148 - Reports and Dissemination of Information; Confidentiality.

500.149 - Employment of Help; Expenses and Salaries.

500.165 - Transporting Shipments of Food Items; Rules; Penalty.

500.166 - Records of Interstate Shipment.

500.167 - Carriers in Interstate Commerce; Exception.

500.169 - Enforcement of Federal Act.

500.171 - Injunction to Restrain Violation.

500.172 - Embargoing, Detaining, Destroying of Food, Food Processing Equipment, or Areas That Are in Violation.

500.173 - Causes for Seizure and Condemnation of Foods.

500.174 - Seizure; Procedure; Prohibition on Sale or Disposal of Article; Penalty.

500.175 - Condemnation and Sale; Release of Seized Article.

500.177 - Penalty for Violation of S. 500.04; Dissemination of False Advertisement.

500.178 - Duty of State Attorney.

500.179 - Issuance of Warnings for Minor Violations.

500.451 - Horse Meat; Offenses.

500.459 - Water Vending Machines.

500.511 - Fees; Enforcement; Preemption.

500.60 - Regulation of Meat Preempted to State.

500.70 - Tomato Food Safety Standards; Inspections; Penalties; Tomato Good Agricultural Practices; Tomato Best Management Practices.

500.80 - Cottage Food Operations.

500.81 - Healthy Food Financing Initiative.

500.90 - Regulation of Polystyrene Products Preempted to Department.