65-657. Same; unlawful acts. The following acts and the causing thereof within the state of Kansas are hereby prohibited:

(a) The processing, storage or distribution of any food, drug, device or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded.

(b) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device or cosmetic.

(c) The receipt in commerce of any food, drug, device or cosmetic knowing it to be adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise.

(d) The dissemination of any false advertisement.

(e) The refusal to permit entry, inspection or taking of a sample, as authorized by K.S.A. 65-674, and amendments thereto.

(f) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking which guaranty or undertaking is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of the person residing in the United States from whom such person received in good faith the food, drug, device or cosmetic.

(g) The removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in violation of K.S.A. 65-660, and amendments thereto.

(h) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to a food, drug, device or cosmetic, if such act is done while such article is held for sale and results in such article being misbranded.

(i) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating or falsely representing, or without proper authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label or other identification method authorized or required by rules and regulations promulgated under the provisions of this act.

(j) The using of any person to such person's own advantage, or revealing, other than to the administrator or officers or employees of the department of agriculture or to the courts where relevant in any jurisdictional proceeding under this act, any information acquired under authority of this act concerning any method or process which constitutes a trade secret under the uniform trade secrets act, K.S.A. 60-3320 et seq., and amendments thereto, and as a trade secret is entitled to protection.

(k) The using, on the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement relating to such drug, of any representation or suggestion that an application with respect to such drug is effective under K.S.A. 65-669a, and amendments thereto, or that such drug complies with the provisions of such section.

(l) In the case of a prescription drug distributed or offered for sale in this state, the failure of the manufacturer, packer or distributor thereof to maintain for transmittal, or to transmit, to any practitioner licensed by applicable law to administer such drug who makes written request for information as to such drug, true and correct copies of all printed matter which is required to be included in any package in which that drug is distributed or sold, or such other printed matter as is approved under the federal act. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to exempt any person from any labeling requirement imposed by or under other provisions of this act.

(m) (1) Placing or causing to be placed upon any drug or device or container thereof, with intent to defraud, the trade name or other identifying mark, or imprint of another or any likeness of any of the foregoing; (2) selling, dispensing, disposing of or causing to be sold, dispensed or disposed of or concealing or keeping in possession, control or custody, with intent to sell, dispense or dispose of, any drug, device or any container thereof, with knowledge that the trade name or other identifying mark or imprint of another or any likeness of any of the foregoing has been placed thereon in a manner prohibited by paragraph (1); or (3) making, selling, disposing of or causing to be made, sold or disposed of or keeping in possession, control or custody, or concealing, with intent to defraud, any punch, die, plate, or other thing designed to print, imprint or reproduce that trade name or other identifying mark or imprint of another or any likeness of any of the foregoing upon any drug, device or container thereof.

(n) Dispensing or causing to be dispensed a different drug or brand of drug in place of the drug or brand of drug ordered or prescribed without the express permission in each case of the person ordering or prescribing.

(o) Knowingly killing, selling, trading, exchanging or offering to sell, trade or exchange any diseased animal for human consumption, except immediate slaughter under state or federal meat and poultry inspection.

(p) Knowingly purchasing or otherwise obtaining possession of any diseased animal for the purpose and with the intent of disposing the same for food, except immediate slaughter under state or federal meat and poultry inspection.

(q) Offering or exposing for sale at retail, for human consumption, any slaughtered wild or domestic fowl, rabbit, squirrel or other small animal unless the entrails, crops and other offensive parts are properly drawn and removed and the carcass is cooled to 41 degrees Fahrenheit or less within four hours of slaughter and held at such temperature until delivery to the end consumer.

(r) Failing to protect slaughtered fresh meats, fish, fowl or game for human consumption from dust, flies and other vermin or substance which may injuriously affect it. Protection shall be required at any wholesale or retail food establishment or food processing plant and for peddlers transporting such goods from place to place.

History: L. 1953, ch. 286, § 3; L. 1965, ch. 377, § 2; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 98; L. 2005, ch. 67, § 6; L. 2010, ch. 72, § 7; L. 2012, ch. 145, § 17; July 1.