All cold storage meats, eggs, poultry, fish, ice cream and other cold storage animal products shall be plainly labeled or branded to show the facts of cold storage to the consuming public. The term "cold storage" means the storing and preservation of food products by cold. Such labeling and brandings is not necessary where the ice or refrigeration is incident to the preservation of the fresh unstored product from the producer to the customer and without unnecessary delay.
No retailer shall handle cold storage products, or other products required to be preserved with ice, without efficient icing arrangements or refrigeration therefor. No such products shall be exposed to warm temperature, and all such products shall be handled as otherwise specified in this article and the laws of the State.
No product shall be served or sold in the City which has been once removed from cold storage and exposed to the retail markets for sale and sent back to cold storage, including turkeys, chickens and similar products which are taken out, for example, for the Thanksgiving and other markets, and exposed in the retail market, and which, not being sold, are returned to storage for the Christmas or other markets. Cold storage foods shall be delivered direct from cold storage, through proper facilities and sanitary conditions in the retail market, to the consuming public, and the sale of any such product which has been subject to any conditions which would render it contaminated, unwholesome or unfit for food, shall be prohibited.
The signs and labeling, as specified herein, shall obtain with respect to products coming into the City, between the producer or packer and the wholesale trade, and between the wholesale trade and the general public. Restaurants and hotels supplying the stored products shall display signs on the menu, or otherwise to that effect. No product shall be sold as "fresh", "strictly fresh" or "from the country", or by similar description which is a stored product or which is not as represented; nor, shall any product be sold as a cold storage product when such is not the case, or which has been so exposed or kept as to deteriorate in quality after leaving cold storage, but shall have the additional facts stated on the signs and labeling in the manner as may be directed by the Board of Health.
(1969 Code §10-6)