2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 13, Chapters 536 - 644
ORS Chapter 625
625.200 Standard of weight for bread; sale of loaves of unauthorized weight prohibited; other products.


OR Rev Stat § 625.200 (through Leg Sess 2011) What's This?

(1) Bread, manufactured, made or kept for the purpose of sale, offered or exposed for sale, or sold in the form of loaves, shall be of such a standard of weight as the State Department of Agriculture by rule may prescribe.

(2) For the purpose of this section bread shall be deemed to be in the form of loaves, whether or not the loaf is wrapped, or whether transparent or other wrapping is used, or whether or not the loaf is sliced, and shall be deemed to be in package form when wrapped, and shall be labeled with the net weight and such other labeling as may be required by rules promulgated by the department under the authority granted in ORS 625.160.

(3) No person shall manufacture, make, procure or keep for the purpose of sale, offer or expose for sale, or sell bread in the form of loaves which does not conform to the weights specified by rule.

(4) This section does not apply to biscuits, buns, crackers, rolls, cakes or cookies, which, when sold or offered for sale, shall be sold either by net weight or numerical count, and when in package form shall be marked plainly as to the net weight or numerical count, except that packages containing more than 12 shall be labeled with the net weight. [Amended by 1953 c.657 2; 1959 c.370 2; 1969 c.192 3; 1987 c.472 3]

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