Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 585 - Food, Drugs and Cosmetics: Adulteration; Labels; Brands
NRS 585.300 - Adulterated food: Poisonous or insanitary ingredients.

A food shall be deemed to be adulterated if:
1. It bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health unless the substance is not an added substance and the quantity of the substance does not ordinarily render it injurious to health;
2. It consists in whole or in part of a diseased, contaminated, filthy or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for food;
3. It has been produced, prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth or rendered diseased, unwholesome or injurious to health;
4. It is the product of an animal which was diseased, died otherwise than by slaughter or was fed upon the uncooked offal from a slaughterhouse;
5. Its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; or
6. It bears or contains any color additive which is unsafe within the meaning of the Federal Act.
[Part 6:177:1939; 1931 NCL § 6206.05]—(NRS A 1983, 190)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 585 - Food, Drugs and Cosmetics: Adulteration; Labels; Brands

NRS 585.010 - Short title.

NRS 585.020 - Definitions.

NRS 585.030 - "Advertisement" defined.

NRS 585.040 - "Commissioner" defined.

NRS 585.050 - "Contaminated with filth" defined.

NRS 585.060 - "Cosmetic" defined.

NRS 585.070 - "Device" defined.

NRS 585.080 - "Drug" defined.

NRS 585.090 - "Federal Act" defined.

NRS 585.100 - "Food" defined.

NRS 585.110 - "Immediate container" defined.

NRS 585.120 - "Label" defined.

NRS 585.130 - "Labeling" defined.

NRS 585.140 - "New drug" defined.

NRS 585.150 - "Official compendium" defined.

NRS 585.170 - Factors to be considered in determining whether label or advertisement is misleading.

NRS 585.180 - Construction of representation that drug is antiseptic.

NRS 585.190 - Scope of provisions regulating sales.

NRS 585.195 - Inapplicability of chapter to certain veterinary biologic products.

NRS 585.200 - Appointment of Commissioner of Food and Drugs.

NRS 585.210 - Regulations.

NRS 585.220 - Hearings.

NRS 585.230 - Record of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded foods, drugs, devices and cosmetics; biennial report of Commissioner; dissemination of information.

NRS 585.240 - Inspection of factories and vehicles: Purposes; examination of samples.

NRS 585.245 - Licensing of persons manufacturing, compounding, processing or packaging drugs, devices or cosmetics: Regulations; fees; inspection.

NRS 585.250 - Quarantine: Tagging or marking of article; unlawful removal or disposal of article.

NRS 585.260 - Quarantine: Removal of tag or marking; immunity from liability for certain persons if court finds probable cause for quarantine.

NRS 585.270 - Quarantine: Petition for condemnation or destruction of adulterated or misbranded article.

NRS 585.280 - Quarantine: Destruction of article found to be adulterated or misbranded.

NRS 585.290 - Quarantine: Correction of defect by proper labeling or processing.

NRS 585.300 - Adulterated food: Poisonous or insanitary ingredients.

NRS 585.310 - Adulterated food: Absence, substitution or addition of constituents. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Adulterated food: Absence, substitution or addition of constituents; exception. [Effective January 1, 2022.]

NRS 585.320 - Adulterated food: Standards of purity, quality or strength.

NRS 585.330 - Adulterated food: Confectionery containing nonnutritive substance.

NRS 585.350 - Misbranded food.

NRS 585.355 - Use of "honey" in product label or designation restricted; "honey" defined.

NRS 585.360 - Food containing filthy, decomposed or putrid substance declared nuisance; condemnation or destruction by Commissioner.

NRS 585.370 - Adulterated drugs and devices: Poisonous or insanitary ingredients.

NRS 585.380 - Adulterated drugs and devices: Strength, quality or purity differing from official compendium.

NRS 585.390 - Adulterated drugs and devices: Misrepresentation of strength, quality or purity if drug not in compendium.

NRS 585.400 - Adulterated drugs and devices: Mixture with or substitution of another substance.

NRS 585.410 - Misbranded drugs and devices: False or misleading label.

NRS 585.420 - Misbranded drugs and devices: Contents of label on package.

NRS 585.430 - Misbranded drugs and devices: Habit-forming substances.

NRS 585.440 - Misbranded drugs and devices: Designation of drug by name not in compendium.

NRS 585.450 - Misbranded drugs and devices: Directions for use and warnings on label.

NRS 585.460 - Misbranded drugs and devices: Misleading container; imitation; offer for sale under another name.

NRS 585.470 - Misbranded drugs and devices: Health-endangering when used as prescribed.

NRS 585.480 - Misbranded drugs and devices: Drug containing amidopyrine, barbituric acid, cinchophen, dinitrophenol or sulfanilamide sold without prescription.

NRS 585.485 - Restrictions on sale of dimethyl sulfoxide; penalty.

NRS 585.490 - Introduction or delivery for introduction of new drug into intrastate commerce before application is effective prohibited.

NRS 585.495 - Licensing of manufacture of amygdalin and procaine hydrochloride; duties and powers of Commissioner; injunctive relief.

NRS 585.497 - Assessment on gross receipts from sale of amygdalin and procaine hydrochloride.

NRS 585.500 - Adulterated cosmetics.

NRS 585.510 - Misbranded cosmetics.

NRS 585.520 - Prohibited acts.

NRS 585.530 - When advertisement deemed false.

NRS 585.535 - Unlawful to sell or offer to sell beverage container opened by detaching metal ring or tab; exceptions; penalty.

NRS 585.540 - Duties of Attorney General and district attorneys; hearing by Commissioner before institution of criminal proceedings.

NRS 585.550 - Penalties.