CA Meat, Poultry Deceptive Packaging Law Barred
February 19, 2016 | 1 min to read
Federal law governing meat and poultry products bars California's laws against “nonfunctional slack fill,” or empty space between a product and its packaging that doesn't serve certain specified purposes, the Ninth Circuit said.
As applied to meat and poultry products, California's provisions are expressly preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Feb. 12 in an unpublished opinion.
The appeals court affirmed a permanent injunction against enforcement of the state's nonfunctional slack fill provisions against Del Real LLC, a producer of Mexican heat-and-serve meat and poultry products.
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