It shall be unlawful for any merchant, broker or processor to knowingly sell, offer for sale or expose for sale an irradiated food except as otherwise provided in this chapter, whether or not such food is deemed to be adulterated under the provisions of these Codified Ordinances. It shall not be unlawful under this chapter for any merchant, broker or processor to knowingly sell, offer for sale or expose for sale an irradiated food to a hospital, medical clinic, physician or physician's office for use as part of a medical regimen in the care or treatment of persons with an immune system deficiency or other disease, provided the irradiated food is packaged with or accompanied by a warning label that it is intended for medical use only by such persons upon a physician's advice, nor shall it be unlawful for such persons to knowingly sell, refer for sale or expose for sale an irradiated food if both of the following requirements are met, on or before May 1, 1990:
(a) The premises on which any such irradiated food is sold, offered for sale, or exposed for sale, are prominently posted with a sign at or near each public entrance to such premises, on which sign is printed a message stating that irradiated food is offered for sale or exposed for sale on such premises; and
(b) Every irradiated food offered or exposed for sale within such premises is either individually labelled as being an irradiated food, or is so offered or exposed for sale only in the immediate vicinity of a conspicuous label which relates to that food and which indicates that it is an irradiated food.
(Ord. 12-90. Passed 3-19-90.)