The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS

Chapter 500
FOOD PRODUCTS

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F.S. 500.02

500.02 Purpose of chapter.—This chapter is intended to:

(1) Safeguard the public health and promote the public welfare by protecting the consuming public from injury by product use and the purchasing public from injury by merchandising deceit, flowing from intrastate commerce in food;

(2) Provide legislation which shall be uniform, as provided in this chapter, and administered so far as practicable in conformity with the provisions of, and regulations issued under the authority of, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946; and likewise uniform with the Federal Trade Commission Act, to the extent that it expressly prohibits the false advertisement of food; and

(3) Promote thereby uniformity of such state and federal laws and their administration and enforcement throughout the United States and in the several states.

History.—s. 1, ch. 19656, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 4151(665); s. 3, ch. 82-225; s. 2, ch. 87-388.

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Amendments to 500.02

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 500.02

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 500.02.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

E. STANSFIELD v. MINUTE MAID COMPANY, a, 124 F. Supp. 3d 1226 (N.D. Fla. 2015)

. . . See §§ 500.11(a)(1), (i), 500.02(2), Fla. Stat. . . .

BEALE, v. BIOMET, INC., 492 F. Supp. 2d 1360 (S.D. Fla. 2007)

. . . See, e. g., §§ 500.02(1) and 500.151, Fla.Stat. (1979).” Id. at 822. . . .

D. SPEARS, Sr. v. RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, 363 F. Supp. 2d 1176 (D. Minn. 2005)

. . . See Tribal Code §§ 500.02, subd. 2. . . . Tribal Code § 500.02, subd. 3. . . .

ZANZURI, v. G. D. SEARLE COMPANY, ABC, 748 F. Supp. 1511 (S.D. Fla. 1990)

. . . Plaintiff does point out that prior to Chapter 499, Chapters 500.01, and 500.02 prohibited false advertising . . .

N. BUCKNER, v. ALLERGAN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. a, 400 So. 2d 820 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981)

. . . See, e. g., §§ 500.02(1) and 500.151, Fla.Stat. (1979). . § 402A, Comment k. . . .