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SECTION 214-G
Labeling of certain frozen foods
Agriculture & Markets (AGM) CHAPTER 69, ARTICLE 17
§ 214-g. Labeling of certain frozen foods. If any person, firm,
corporation, partnership, association or any other business association
sells at retail or displays for sale at retail any sea food, food fish
or shellfish, any meat, meat by-product or meat food product capable of
use as human food as those terms are defined in section ninety-six-g of
this chapter, any poultry or poultry product capable of use as human
food as those terms are defined in section ninety-six-z-21 of this
chapter which has been frozen subsequent to being offered for sale or
distribution to the ultimate consumer, it shall bear a label in the form
to be prescribed by regulation of the commissioner which is clearly
discernible to a customer that such product has been previously offered
for sale in unfrozen form. No such sea food, food fish or shellfish,
meat, meat by-product or meat food product, poultry or poultry product
shall be sold unless in such a package or container bearing said label.
The commissioner shall also have the power to prescribe by regulations
the labeling of such products not sold by package or container.

(b) The provisions of this subdivision shall not be applicable in
cities having a population of one million or more.