                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONDEMNATION OF UNSAFE FOOD BY COMMISSIONER (§ 3.2-5134)

If the Commissioner finds in any room, building, vehicle of transportation, or
other structure, any meat, seafood, poultry, vegetable, fruit, or other
perishable articles of food, which are unsound or contain any filthy,
decomposed, or putrid substance, or that may be poisonous or deleterious to
health or otherwise unsafe, then the articles of food shall be declared to be a
nuisance, and the Commissioner shall condemn or destroy the unsafe articles of
food or render the unsafe articles of food to be unsalable as human food.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 3-311; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-391; 2008, c. 860.