Delaware § 3309 - Misbranding of food.

§ 3309. Misbranding of food.

For the purposes of this chapter, food is deemed to be misbranded:

(1) If it is an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another food;

(2) If it is labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser or purports to be a foreign product when not so or if the contents of the package as originally put up were removed in whole or in part and other contents were placed in such package or if it fails to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate or acetanilide, or any derivative or preparation of any of such substances contained therein;

(3) If in package form, the quantity of the contents is not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure or numerical count;

(4) If the package containing it or its label bears any statement, design or device regarding the ingredients or the substances contained therein, which statement, design or device is false or misleading in any particular;

(5) If it is obtained by the dealer in frozen bulk form and is subsequently thawed and offered for sale in a package or bearing a label indicating such food to be fresh.

32 Del. Laws, c. 190, §  4;  Code 1935, §  3997;  16 Del. C. 1953, §  3309;  56 Del. Laws, c. 37.;