Assembly Bill A500

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for the labeling of food or food products that contain a genetically modified material or that are produced with a genetically modified material

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A500 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2052
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §391-q, Gen Bus L; amd §§198 & 201, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A1367, S3908
2013-2014: A3525, S3835
2015-2016: A617, S485
2017-2018: S2072

2009-A500 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the labeling of food or food products that contain a genetically modified material or that are produced with a genetically modified material; defines terms; imposes penalties for false labels and misbranding; sets forth exemptions.

2009-A500 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   500

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. JEFFRIES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

AN ACT to amend the general business law and the agriculture and markets
  law, in relation to the labeling of genetically modified foods

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
391-q to read as follows:
  S 391-Q. GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS; REQUIRED LABELING.  1. AS USED IN
THIS SECTION, THE TERM:
  (A) "GENETICALLY MODIFIED MATERIAL" MEANS MATERIAL  DERIVED  FROM  ANY
PART  OF  A GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM, WITHOUT REGARD TO WHETHER THE
ALTERED MOLECULAR  OR  CELLULAR  CHARACTERISTICS  OF  THE  ORGANISM  ARE
DETECTABLE IN THE MATERIAL.
  (B) "GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM" MEANS:
  (I)  AN  ORGANISM  THAT  HAS BEEN ALTERED AT THE MOLECULAR OR CELLULAR
LEVEL BY MEANS THAT ARE NOT POSSIBLE UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS  OR  PROC-
ESSES,  INCLUDING  RECOMBINANT  DNA  AND  RNA  TECHNIQUES,  CELL FUSION,
MICROENCAPSULATION,  MACROENCAPSULATION,  GENE  DELETION  AND  DOUBLING,
INTRODUCTION OF A FOREIGN GENE, AND A PROCESS THAT CHANGES THE POSITIONS
OF  GENES, OTHER THAN A MEANS CONSISTING EXCLUSIVELY OF BREEDING, CONJU-
GATION, FERMENTATION, HYBRIDIZATION, IN VITRO FERTILIZATION,  OR  TISSUE
CULTURE; AND
  (II) AN ORGANISM MADE THROUGH SEXUAL OR ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION, OR BOTH,
INVOLVING  AN  ORGANISM DESCRIBED IN SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH,
IF POSSESSING ANY OF THE ALTERED MOLECULAR OR  CELLULAR  CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE ORGANISM SO DESCRIBED.
  (C)  "PRODUCED WITH A GENETICALLY MODIFIED MATERIAL" USED WITH RESPECT
TO A FOOD, MEANS A FOOD IF:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00033-01-9
              

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