Nevada Code § 585.300

Adulterated food: Poisonous or insanitary ingredients
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A food shall be deemed to be adulterated if:
1. It bears or contains any poisonous or
deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health unless the
substance is not an added substance and the quantity of the substance does not
ordinarily render it injurious to health;
2. It consists in whole or in part of a
diseased, contaminated, filthy or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise
unfit for food;
3. It has been produced, prepared, packed
or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated
with filth or rendered diseased, unwholesome or injurious to health;
4. It is the product of an animal which
was diseased, died otherwise than by slaughter or was fed upon the uncooked
offal from a slaughterhouse;
5. Its container is composed, in whole or
in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the
contents injurious to health; or
6. It bears or contains any color additive
which is unsafe within the meaning of the Federal Act.

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