Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Feb 04, 2014 |
referred to agriculture |
Senate Bill S6542
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2013-S6542 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Agriculture
- Law Section:
- Agriculture and Markets Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add ยง214-o, Ag & Mkts L
2013-S6542 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S6542 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the labeling of gluten-free foods and food products PURPOSE: Provides for the regulation of the use of food and food product labeling which states that the product is "gluten-free" SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section One - amends the agriculture and markets law by adding a new section 214-o to outline and define the labeling of gluten-free foods and food products. Part 1 defines "Gluten-containing grain" shall mean wheat, rye, barley or crossbred hybrids. "Gluten" shall mean the prote- ins that naturally occur in a gluten containing grain and that may cause adverse health effects in individuals with celiac disease "Gluten-Free" shall mean that a food production does not contain an ingredient that is a gluten-containing grain, an ingredient that is derived from a gluten- containing grain and that has not been processed to remove gluten or an ingredient that is derived from a gluten-containing grain and that has been processed to remove gluten if the use of such ingredient results in the presence of twenty parts per million or more of gluten in the food products or inherently does not contain gluten and any unavoidable pres- ence of gluten in the food or food product is below twenty parts per million.
2013-S6542 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6542 I N S E N A T E February 4, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BALL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the labeling of gluten-free foods and food products THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new section 214-o to read as follows: S 214-O. LABELING OF GLUTEN-FREE FOODS AND FOOD PRODUCTS. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION: A. "GLUTEN-CONTAINING GRAIN" SHALL MEAN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING GRAINS OR THEIR CROSSBRED HYBRIDS: (1) WHEAT, INCLUDING ANY SPECIES BELONGING TO THE GENUS TRITICUM; (2) RYE, INCLUDING ANY SPECIES BELONGING TO THE GENUS SECALE; OR (3) BARLEY, INCLUDING ANY SPECIES BELONGING TO THE GENUS HORDEUM. B. "GLUTEN" SHALL MEAN THE PROTEINS THAT NATURALLY OCCUR IN A GLUTEN- CONTAINING GRAIN AND THAT MY CAUSE ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS IN INDIVIDUALS WITH CELIAC DISEASE. C. "GLUTEN-FREE" SHALL MEAN: (1) THAT A FOOD OR PRODUCT: (A) DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (I) AN INGREDIENT THAT IS A GLUTEN-CONTAINING GRAIN, (II) AN INGREDIENT THAT IS DERIVED FROM A GLUTEN-CONTAINING GRAIN AND THAT HAS NOT BEEN PROCESSED TO REMOVE GLUTEN, OR (III) AN INGREDIENT THAT IS DERIVED FROM A GLUTEN-CONTAINING GRAIN AND THAT HAS BEEN PROCESSED TO REMOVE GLUTEN, IF THE USE OF SUCH INGREDIENT RESULTS IN THE PRESENCE OF TWENTY PARTS PER MILLION OR MORE OF GLUTEN IN THE FOOD OR FOOD PRODUCT; OR (B) INHERENTLY DOES NOT CONTAIN GLUTEN; AND (2) ANY UNAVOIDABLE PRESENCE OF GLUTEN IN THE FOOD OR FOOD PRODUCT IS BELOW TWENTY PARTS PER MILLION. 2. A. ANY FOOD OR FOOD PRODUCT WHICH INCLUDES IN ITS LABELING THE TERM "GLUTEN-FREE", "NO GLUTEN", "FREE OF GLUTEN" OR "WITHOUT GLUTEN" WHICH IS NOT GLUTEN FREE SHALL BE DEEMED MISBRANDED. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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