Article 2. Destruction Of Foodstuffs In Restraint Of Trade of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 21. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 2.

It is unlawful for any person to destroy, in restraint of trade, any fowl, animal, vegetable, aquacultural product, or other stuff, product, or article which is customary food, or which is proper for food, for human beings, and is in fit sanitary condition to be used as such.

A person that receives any agricultural product, for sale on commission or for sale or exchange for the benefit of any other person, shall not destroy, abandon, discard as refuse, or dump, such product, without a permit in writing from the commissioner, county health officer, director, State Director of Health Services, or from some other official now or hereafter authorized by law to issue permits for the destruction of such product. Such permits, together with a detailed statement of every product which is destroyed pursuant to the permit, shall be kept on file by the person to whom they are issued.

A copy of each such permit together with a copy of each such detailed statement shall, on the day such permit is issued, be served personally by the consignee, upon the consignor of the destroyed product, or in lieu of such personal service, shall on such day be served by the consignee on the consignor by depositing it in the post office, inclosed in a sealed envelope, postage fully prepaid, addressed to the consignor of the destroyed product at the consignor's address, if known, or if not known, then to the place where the shipment or consignment of such product originated.