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DIVISION 20. MISCELLANEOUS HEALTH AND SAFETY PROVISIONS 24000-26217›CHAPTER 13.8. Farm Animal Cruelty 25990-25994

§ 25993.1

California Health and Safety Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

It shall be a defense to any action to enforce subdivision (b) of Section 25990 that a business owner or operator relied in good faith upon a written certification by the supplier that the whole veal meat, whole pork meat, shell egg, or liquid eggs at issue was not derived from a covered animal who was confined in a cruel manner, or from the immediate offspring of a breeding pig who was confined in a cruel manner.

(Added November 6, 2018, by initiative Proposition 12, Sec. 7. Effective on the fifth day after the Secretary of State files the final Statement of Vote.)

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