Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
20-56-218. Poisonous or deleterious substance — Rules for use.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-56-218. Poisonous or deleterious substance — Rules for use.
(a) Any poisonous or deleterious substance added to any food, except where the substance is required in the production thereof or cannot be avoided by good manufacturing practice, shall be deemed to be unsafe for purposes of the application of § 20-56-208(2), but when the substance is so required or cannot be so avoided, the State Board of Health shall promulgate rules limiting the quantity therein or thereon to such extent as the board finds necessary for the protection of the public health. Any quantity exceeding the limits so fixed shall also be deemed to be unsafe for purposes of the application of § 20-56-208(2).
(b) While such a rule is in effect limiting the quantity of any substance in the case of any food, the food shall not, by reason of bearing or containing any added amount of the substance not in excess of the limit established by rule, be considered to be adulterated within the meaning of § 20-56-208(1).
(c) In determining the quantity of the added substance to be tolerated in or on different articles of food, the board shall take into account the extent to which the use of the substance is required or cannot be avoided in the production of each article and the other ways in which the consumer may be affected by the same or other poisonous or deleterious substances.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-56-218
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Issuing source page ↗
Authority boundary: historical statutory source snapshot not current law.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: arkansas_code:legal_authorities:20-56-218
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.20.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: 7690ed471579898f345b29f1b6c9bf1078b713809fa78e9bc59bc8bc95a400ec
Source location: content.xml paragraph 29950
Stored source content
20-56-218. Poisonous or deleterious substance — Rules for use.
(a) Any poisonous or deleterious substance added to any food, except where the substance is required in the production thereof or cannot be avoided by good manufacturing practice, shall be deemed to be unsafe for purposes of the application of § 20-56-208(2), but when the substance is so required or cannot be so avoided, the State Board of Health shall promulgate rules limiting the quantity therein or thereon to such extent as the board finds necessary for the protection of the public health. Any quantity exceeding the limits so fixed shall also be deemed to be unsafe for purposes of the application of § 20-56-208(2).
(b) While such a rule is in effect limiting the quantity of any substance in the case of any food, the food shall not, by reason of bearing or containing any added amount of the substance not in excess of the limit established by rule, be considered to be adulterated within the meaning of § 20-56-208(1).
(c) In determining the quantity of the added substance to be tolerated in or on different articles of food, the board shall take into account the extent to which the use of the substance is required or cannot be avoided in the production of each article and the other ways in which the consumer may be affected by the same or other poisonous or deleterious substances.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-56-208. Adulterated food.
A food shall be deemed to be adulterated:
(1)(A) If the food bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the food injurious to health.
(B) However, if the substance is not an added substance, the food shall not be considered adulterated under subdivision (1)(A) of this section if the quantity of the substance in the food does not ordinarily render the food injurious to health;
(2) If the food bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance which is unsafe within the meaning of § 20-56-218;
(3) If the food consists, in whole or in part, of a diseased, contaminated, filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance, or if the food is otherwise unfit for human consumption;
(4) If the food has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions where the food may have become contaminated with filth, or where the food may have been rendered diseased, unwholesome, or injurious to health;
(5) If the food is the product of a diseased animal or an animal that has died otherwise than by slaughter or that has been fed, or has otherwise fed upon, the uncooked offal of other animals;
(6) If the food's container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the food injurious to health;
(7) If any valuable constituent has been, in whole or in part, omitted or abstracted from the food;
(8) If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the food;
(9) If damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner;
(10) If any substance has been added, mixed, or packed with the food to increase the food's bulk or weight, to reduce the food's quality or strength, or to make the food appear better or of greater value than the f
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-56-208
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-56-208. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.