The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 6 V.S.A. § 3301)
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§ 3301. Legislative findings
Meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products are an important source of
the State’s total supply of food. They are consumed throughout the State. It is
essential to the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected
by ensuring that these commodities are wholesome, unadulterated, and properly marked,
labeled, and packaged. Unwholesome, adulterated, or misbranded meat, meat food products,
and poultry products impair the effective regulation of intrastate commerce, are injurious
to the public welfare, destroy markets for wholesome, not adulterated, and properly
labeled and packaged meat, meat food product, and poultry product, as well as cause
injury to consumers. The unwholesome, adulterated, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged
articles can be sold at lower prices and compete unfairly with the wholesome, unadulterated,
correctly labeled, or nondeceptively packaged articles, to the detriment of consumers
and the public generally. It is hereby found that the regulation, enforcement, licensing,
and other provisions contained within this chapter are necessary to protect the health
and welfare of consumers. (Added 1985, No. 226 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 2, 1986.)