Authority of food safety authority to examine or sample food, issue hold order and order denaturing or destruction of food.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 580.310
in effect1. Food may be examined or sampled by the food safety authority as often as may be necessary to determine freedom from adulteration or misbranding. The food safety authority may, upon written notice to the owner or person in charge, place a hold order on any food which the food safety authority determines is or has probable cause to believe to be unwholesome or otherwise adulterated or misbranded.
2. Under a hold order, food shall be permitted to be suitably stored. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or alter a hold order, notice or tag placed on food by the food safety authority. Neither such food nor the containers thereof shall be relabeled, repacked, reprocessed, altered, disposed of or destroyed without permission of the food safety authority, except by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
3. After the owner or person in charge has had a hearing as provided for in NRS 580.290 , and on the basis of evidence produced at such hearing, or on the basis of his or her examination in the event a written request for a hearing is not received within 10 days, the food safety authority may vacate the hold order, or may by written order direct the owner or person in charge of the food which was placed under the hold order to denature or destroy such food or to bring it into compliance with the provisions of this chapter. Such order of the food safety authority to denature or destroy such food or bring it into compliance with the provisions of this chapter shall be stayed if the order is appealed to a court of competent jurisdiction within 3 days.
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-580.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026