(a) No person shall keep, offer, display, expose for sale, or solicit for the sale of any processed milk or milk product which is labeled with the term “island fresh”, or like terms, or which by any other means misrepresents the origin of the item as being from any place within the State unless the processed milk or milk product has been at least ninety per cent, by weight, produced in the State.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-120

  • Label: includes any written, printed, or graphic matter affixed to, applied to, attached to, blown into, formed, molded into, embossed on, or appearing upon or adjacent to a consumer commodity, or a package containing any consumer commodity, for purposes of branding, pricing, identifying, or giving any information with respect to the commodity or to the contents of the package, except that an inspector's tag or other nonpromotional matter affixed to or appearing upon a consumer commodity shall not be considered a label requiring the repetition of label information required by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
  • sale: include barter and exchange. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
  • Type: means a model or models of a particular measurement system, instrument, element, or a field standard that positively identifies the design. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer to sell to a consumer, or expose for sale to a consumer, any processed milk or milk product for human consumption which has been at least ninety per cent produced within the State, without providing notice to the consumer that the processed milk or milk product has been locally produced. The notice shall be made by displaying on a conspicuous area on the principal display panels of the carton or container a label or sign printed in bold face or other distinctive type stating that the product is “island fresh” or using another similar term.
(c) For the purpose of this section:

“Carton” or “container” means a package containing processed milk or milk products.

“Consumer” means any person who purchases processed milk or milk products.

“Processed milk or milk product” means processed fresh milk and fresh milk products.

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