HRS §328-46
No returning food to cold storage after it is sold
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section makes it illegal for a cold storage operator to put food back into cold storage after it has been sold to consumers. Moving food between cold storage facilities is allowed, as long as the move is not done to get around the rules in this law.
businesses
The statute, as written — Restorage prohibited
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.
It shall be unlawful for any storer or operator to return to cold storage any article of food that has once been released from such storage and placed on the market for sale to consumers, but nothing in this section shall prevent the transfer of goods from one cold storage or refrigerating warehouse to another; provided that such transfer is not made for the purpose of evading sections 328-41 to 328-47.
Sections this one refers to
§328-41 What cold storage terms mean in this law
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