California · Health and Safety Code - HSC

HSC §108250: The packing, selling, offering for sale, or keeping for sale of a hazardous substance in a reused food, drug, or cosmetic container or in a container that, though not a reused container, is identifiab

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

It is unlawful to pack, sell, offer for sale, or keep for sale a hazardous substance in a reused or identifiable food, drug, or cosmetic container, creating a misbranded package.

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The packing, selling, offering for sale, or keeping for sale of a hazardous substance in a reused food, drug, or cosmetic container or in a container that, though not a reused container, is identifiable as a food, drug, or cosmetic container by its labeling or by other identification, is unlawful. Such an act shall result in the hazardous substance being in a misbranded package. As used in this section, the terms “cosmetic,” “drug” and “food” shall have the same meaning as in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 109875) of Part 5.

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