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Senate Bill S3947

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires disclosure labels for dairy products from cows injected with a certain synthetic bovine growth hormone ("rBST")

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2009-S3947 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยงยง50 & 256-c, Ag & Mkts L

2009-S3947 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a milk producer who produces dairy products from animals that have been treated with the synthetic growth hormone, bovine somatotropin (rBST), to notify, by affidavit, his or her handler before using rBST in milk production; requires that dairy products offered for sale from animals that have been treated with the synthetic growth hormone, bovine somatotropin, to contain a label indicating such.

2009-S3947 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S3947 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3947

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  requir-
  ing  disclosure  labels  on  dairy products derived from cows injected
  with a certain synthetic bovine growth hormone

  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 50 to read as follows:
  S 50. DAIRY PRODUCTS FROM MILK FROM COWS TREATED WITH RBST; DISCLOSURE
LABELS. 1. DAIRY PRODUCTS MADE WHOLLY OR IN PART  FROM  MILK  FROM  COWS
INJECTED  WITH  BOVINE  SOMATOTROPIN  REQUIRED TO BE LABELED PURSUANT TO
SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX-C OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL  NOT  BE  SOLD  IN
THIS  STATE  EXCEPT  UNDER A LABEL WHICH CLEARLY INSCRIBES IN LETTERS NO
LESS THAN EIGHT POINT TYPE: "THIS DAIRY PRODUCT  IS  DERIVED  FROM  COWS
INJECTED WITH SYNTHETIC BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE".
  2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
  A.  "DAIRY  PRODUCTS" MEANS ANY PRODUCT INTENDED FOR USE AS HUMAN FOOD
WHICH IS MADE WHOLLY OR IN PART  FROM  MILK,  EXEMPTING  PRODUCTS  WHICH
CONTAIN MILK ONLY IN A RELATIVELY SMALL PROPORTION OR WHICH HISTORICALLY
HAVE  NOT  BEEN CONSIDERED BY CONSUMERS AS DAIRY PRODUCTS, AND WHICH ARE
EXEMPTED FROM DEFINITIONS AS A DAIRY PRODUCT BY THE  COMMISSIONER  UNDER
SUCH CONDITIONS AS THE COMMISSIONER MAY PRESCRIBE.
  B.  "RBST" MEANS RECOMBINANT BOVINE SOMATOTROPIN, A RECOMBINANT BOVINE
GROWTH HORMONE USED WITH LACTATING DAIRY COWS TO INCREASE THE PRODUCTION
OF MARKETABLE MILK.
  S 2. The agriculture and markets  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
section 256-c to read as follows:
  S  256-C. MILK FROM COWS WHICH WERE INJECTED WITH RBST. MILK FROM COWS
WHICH WERE INJECTED WITH RBST SHALL NOT BE SOLD OR  SUPPLIED  FOR  HUMAN
CONSUMPTION  IN  THIS  STATE,  EXCEPT  UNDER A LABEL CLEARLY LISTING THE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09143-01-9

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