01-001-339 Me. Code R. § I-1
Current through 2025-03, January 15, 2025
"Canned Maine sardines in Tomato Sauce" is the commercially canned product prepared From immature Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus); packed with a suitable quantity and quality of tomato sauce in hermetically sealed containers and so processed by heat as to prevent spoilage. The tomato sauce ingredients shall conform to Federal Specification of purity and be free from adulteration. Immature herring means herring of which less than fifty percent (50%) have well developed gonads and may or may not have spawned.
01-001 C.M.R. ch. 339, § I-1