ORS 618.246: Sale by weight required for certain food products; labeling requirements.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
(1) Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold, or as one of several elements comprising a ready-to-eat meal sold as a unit for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where sold, all poultry, or parts thereof, meat, meat products, fish and seafood, sold, offered or exposed for sale as food, shall be sold, offered or exposed for sale by weight. (2) If meat, poultry, fish or seafood is combined with or associated with some other food element to form either a distinctive food product or a food combination, such food product or combination shall be sold, offered or exposed for sale by weight. The quantity representation may be the total weight of the food product or combination and a quantity representation need not be made for each of the several elements of the food product or combination. (3) In the case of ready-to-cook whole-carcass stuffed poultry, ready-to-cook stuffed poultry roasts, rolls, bars and logs, and ready-to-cook stuffed poultry products designated by terms of similar import, the label must show the total net weight and, in close proximity, the net weight of the poultry exclusive of stuffing ingredients. [1973 c.293 §29]
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- ORS 618.010: Definitions.
- ORS 618.016: Policy.
- ORS 618.021: Duties of director.
- ORS 618.026: Delegation of duties and powers of department and director.
- ORS 618.031: Rulemaking authority.
- ORS 618.046: Secondary standards; verification of accuracy.
- ORS 618.051: Specifications and tolerances of commercial weights and measures; consideration of federal requirements; status of nonconforming weights and measures; rules.
- ORS 618.066: Department investigation of alleged weights and measures law violations; exempt devices.
- ORS 618.071: Inspection and investigation authority of department; written notices for minor violations.
- ORS 618.086: Orders restricting distribution of weights and measures.
- ORS 618.096: Prohibited acts involving commercial weights and measures.
- ORS 618.101: Evidentiary presumptions regarding weights and measures law.
- ORS 618.121: License required for commercially operated weighing or measuring instrument; scope of license.
- ORS 618.131: Weights and measures licenses in addition to other licenses; effect of conflicting laws.
- ORS 618.136: Establishing license fees; limits on fee increases; disposition of fees.
- ORS 618.146: Term of licenses; suspension and revocation of licenses.
- ORS 618.151: Commercial use of unlicensed weighing or measuring instrument prohibited.
- ORS 618.156: Forms, certificates and identification tags; license application forms.
- ORS 618.201: Sampling of packages and commodities; ordering packages and commodities withheld from sale; disposition after order.
- ORS 618.206: Manner of selling commodities; exemptions; rules.
- ORS 618.211: Labeling of packaged commodities; use of labeling terms restricted; scope of rules.
Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors618.html