Misleading or deceptive practices. A. There is hereby created the "Oklahoma Meat Consumer Protection Act". B. As used in the Oklahoma Meat Consumer Protection Act: 1. "Livestock" means animals defined by paragraph 9 of Section 1-3 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes; 2. "Meat" means any edible portion of livestock or part thereof; 3. "Misrepresent" means the use of any untrue, misleading or deceptive oral or written statement, advertisement, label, display, picture, illustration or sample; and 4. "Represent" means the use of any form of oral or written statement, advertisement, label, display, picture, illustration or sample. C. Pursuant to the Oklahoma Meat Consumer Protection Act, no person advertising, offering for sale or selling meat shall engage in any misleading or deceptive practices, including, but not limited to, the following: 1. Misrepresenting the cut, grade, brand, trade name or weight or measure of any meat, or misrepresenting a product as meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock; provided, product packaging for plant-based items shall not be considered in violation of the provisions of this paragraph so long as the packaging displays that the product is derived from plant-based sources in type that is uniform in size and prominence to the name of the product; 2. Using a USDA-quality grade on a product not graded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) or Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry (ODAFF); or 3. Failing to fully and conspicuously disclose the correct government grade for any product if the product is represented as having been graded by the USDA or ODAFF.
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