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609.687

Statute ID: 3091

Adulteration

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Statute Number:

609.687

Enactment Date:

Jan 1, 1859

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 1983

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Adulteration

Statute ID:

3091

Created:

Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

System

Legal Analyst Comment:

Summary Text:

Adulteration

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/609/687.html

Legislative Session:

2005 - NA

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Sep 1, 2006

Subdivision 1.  
"Adulteration" is the intentional adding of any substance, which has the capacity to cause death, bodily harm or illness by ingestion, injection, inhalation or absorption, to a substance having a customary or reasonably foreseeable human use.


Subd. 2.   
(a) Whoever, knowing or having reason to know that the adulteration will cause or is capable of causing death, bodily harm or illness, adulterates any substance with the intent to cause death, bodily harm or illness is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 3; or
(b) Whoever, knowing or having reason to know that a substance has been adulterated as defined in subdivision 1, distributes, disseminates, gives, sells, or otherwise transfers an adulterated substance with the intent to cause death, bodily harm or illness is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 3.


Subd. 3.   
Whoever violates subdivision 2 may be sentenced as follows:
(1) if the adulteration causes death, to imprisonment for not more than 40 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $100,000, or both;
(2) if the adulteration causes any illness, pain, or other bodily harm, to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both;
(3) otherwise, to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.