HRS §145D-5
State agencies keep power to regulate donated food
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says the state health and agriculture departments still have their usual authority to regulate, inspect, or ban donated food meant for people to eat. Nothing in this chapter takes away that power.
state agencies
The statute, as written — Reserving the State's authority to regulate, inspect, or ban the use of donated food
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Nothing in this chapter is intended to restrict the authority of the department of health or the department of agriculture and biosecurity to regulate, inspect, or ban the use of such donated foods for human consumption.
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