Sec.22-39g-6. Adulterated and misbranded produce, investigations

(a) No produce farm shall sell or offer for sale adulterated produce or misbranded produce.

(b) The commissioner or the commissioner’s designated agent may investigate any allegation of adulterated produce, misbranded produce, or illness or injury alleged to have been caused by produce grown and offered for sale by a produce farm. Such investigation may include inspection of any area of a produce farm, including equipment, tools, vehicles for holding such produce, and any building under the produce farm’s control where produce is grown, harvested, packed, labeled, or held. Such investigation may include obtaining samples and specimens for laboratory analysis.

(c) For purposes of this section and section 22-39g-7 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, a certificate of analysis, from a laboratory of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Connecticut, the United States Food and Drug Administration, the United States Department of Agriculture or other accredited laboratory acceptable to the commissioner, shall be considered prima facie evidence of the ingredients and constituents of any sample or specimen submitted for analysis by the commissioner or the commissioner’s designated agent.

(Effective February 10, 2023)