PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 451

CHAPTER 451
(House Bill 802)

AN ACT concerning

Food Processing Plants - Exception - Warehouse or Distribution Center - Sealed

Containers

FOR the purpose of creating an exception to the definition of "food processing plant" for
certain food warehouses or distribution centers that do not process food and that
store certain types of food in sealed containers; and generally relating to the
definition of "food processing plant".

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 21-301(g)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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21-301.

(g) (1) "Food processing plant" means any place used for, or in connection
with, the commercial manufacturing, preparing, processing, packaging, canning, freezing,
storing, distributing, labeling, or holding of food or drink for human consumption.

(2) "Food processing plant" includes:

(i) A bakery plant;

(ii) A cannery;

(iii) A confectionery plant;

(iv) A crab meat picking plant;

(v) A food manufacturing plant;

(vi) A food warehouse or distribution center;

(vii) A frozen food processing plant;

(viii) An ice manufacturing plant;

(ix) A shellfish plant;

(x) A soft drink manufacturing plant; or

(xi) A bottled water plant.

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