§4744. Applicability; prohibited activities; labeling

            A.(1) The provisions of this Part shall apply only to a person that places a label on a food product as defined in R.S. 3:4743.

            (2) Any cell cultured food product shall bear a clear and conspicuous disclosure identifying the product in a bold typed print of not less than thirty-point font.

            B. No person shall intentionally misbrand or misrepresent any food product as an agricultural product through any activity including:

            (1) Affixing a label to a food product that is false or misleading.

            (2) Selling a food product under the name of an agricultural product.

            (3) Representing a food product as an agricultural product for which a definition and standard of identity has been provided by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq., unless:

            (a) The food product conforms to the definition and standard.

            (b) The label of the food product bears the name of the food specified in the definition and standard and includes the common names of optional ingredients other than spices, flavoring, and coloring present in the food as regulations require.

            (4) Representing a food product as meat or a meat product when the food product is not derived from a harvested beef, pork, poultry, alligator, farm-raised deer, turtle, domestic rabbit, crawfish, or shrimp carcass.

            (5) Representing a food product as rice when the food product is not rice.

            (6) Representing a food product as beef or a beef product when the food product is not derived from a domesticated bovine.

            (7) Representing a food product as pork or a pork product when the food product is not derived from a domesticated swine.

            (8) Representing a food product as poultry when the food product is not derived from domesticated birds.

            (9) Utilizing a term that is the same as or deceptively similar to a term that has been used or defined historically in reference to a specific agricultural product.

            (10) Affixing a label that uses the term "rice" in the name of the food product when the food product is not rice or derived from rice.

            (11) Representing a cell cultured food product as a meat product.

            (12) Representing a food product as sugar when it is not an unaltered plant-based simple sugar or sucrose.

            NOTE: Subsection C eff. upon Acts 2026, No. 555 becoming effective. See Acts 2026, No. 837.

            C.(1) No person, firm, or corporation shall manufacture for sale, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribute any non-lactational dairy protein product in this state.

            (2) No non-lactational dairy protein product shall be labeled or marketed as milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, ice cream, or any other dairy product intended for human consumption.

            (3) Any violation of this Section shall constitute a violation of this Part and shall be subject to all enforcement authority, penalties, and remedies otherwise provided by law.

            Acts 2019, No. 273, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 2020; Acts 2026, No. 565, §1; Acts 2026, No. 837, §2, eff. See Act.