§ 188.60. Embargo and detention.

The environmental health division may attach a tag or issue a written notice of embargo or detention and thereby embargo any food, clothing, equipment, utensil or thing which by reason of origin, dirt, filth, extraneous matter, insects, temperature, corrosion, open seams, chipped or cracked surfaces is unfit for use. Such tag shall be printed as follows:

MINNEAPOLIS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION HELD FOR INVESTIGATION

DATE _______

SANITARIAN _______

It shall be unlawful for any person to remove such tag from any food, utensil and the like or to remove or use such food, equipment, clothing and the like to which a tag has been attached or to remove, sell, give away, or otherwise dispose of any food covered by written notice of embargo or detention except by direction of the environmental health division. (99-Or-119, § 1, 10-29-99; 2013-Or-136, § 4, 12-6-13)