Bill Text: AZ HB2244 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Misrepresenting; food products
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-24 - Senate additional Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass Amended [HB2244 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2024-HB2244-Engrossed.html
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Senate Engrossed House Bill
misbranding; misrepresenting; food products (now: misrepresenting; food products) |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024
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HOUSE BILL 2244 |
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An Act
amending title 36, chapter 8, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-917; relating to pure food control.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 8, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-917, to read:
36-917. Products not derived from slaughter; misrepresenting as fish, meat or poultry; prohibition; violation; civil penalty; definitions
A. A person who places a label on a food product may not intentionally misrepresent a product that is not derived from The slaughter or killing of an animal as meat, a meat food product, fish, a fish PRODUCT, poultry, a poultry product or any other animal food product through any activity, including misrepresenting by doing any of the following:
1. Affixing a false or misleading label on meat, a meat food product, fish, a fish PRODUCT, poultry, a poultry product or any other animal food PRODUCT.
2. Using a term that is the same as or deceptively similar to a term that has been used or defined historically in reference to a specific meat food product, fish product, poultry product or other animal food product with the intent to misrepresent the product.
3. Representing a product as meat, a meat food product, fish, a fish PRODUCT, poultry, a poultry product or any other animal food PRODUCT if the product is a cell-cultured food product.
4. Representing a product as meat, a meat food product, fish, a fish PRODUCT, poultry, a poultry product or any other animal food PRODUCT if the product is a synthetic product derived from a plant, an insect or any other source.
B. The department may do any of the following:
1. Adopt rules to enforce this section.
2. Receive complaints and investigate violations of this section.
3. Employ personnel to investigate and enforce this section or delegate investigation and enforcement authority to county health departments or the weights and measures services division of the Arizona department of agriculture.
4. Seek and obtain injunctive relief or other civil relief to restrain and prevent violations of this section and rules adopted pursuant to this section.
5. After a hearing, impose a civil penalty of not more than $100,000 for each violation of this section. Each day a violation occurs is a separate offense.
C. This section DOES NOT PROHIBIT A PERSON FROM USING a word or term for the purposes of communicating a brand name, slogan, trademark or trade name in a manner that is not intentionally false, misleading or deceptive.
d. For the purposes of this section:
1. "animal" means livestock, POULTRY, fish, big game, small game or any other species of ANIMAL.
2. "ANIMAL FOOD PRODUCT":
(a) MEANS aNY ARTICLE OF FOOD OR ANY ARTICLE INTENDED FOR OR CAPABLE OF BEING USED AS HUMAN FOOD that IS DERIVED OR PREPARED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM THE SLAUGHTER OR KILLING OF AN ANIMAL.
(b) Does not include an animal byPRODUCT that is used ONLY FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES AND ADVERTISED ONLY TO MEDICAL PROFESSIONals.
3. "BIG GAME" HAS THE SAME MEANING PRESCRIBED IN SECTION 17-101.
4. "Cell-Cultured food product" means any cultured animal tissue that is produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the organism from which it is derived.
5. "Deceptively similar" means misleading to a reasonable person.
6. "Department" means the department of health services.
7. "fish" means fresh or saltwater finfish, crustaceans, other forms of aquatic animal life, including alligator, frog, aquatic turtle, jellyfish, sea cucumber, sea urchin, roe of any fish and mollusks intended for human consumption.
8. "Fish product" means any human food product in which fish is a characterizing ingredient.
9. "Livestock" has the same meaning prescribed in section 3-1201.
10. "Meat" has the same meaning prescribed in section 3-2001.
11. "Meat food product" has the same meaning prescribed in section 3-2001.
12. "Misrepresent" means to use any untrue, misleading or deceptive oral or written statement, advertisement, label, display, picture, illustration or sample.
13. "Poultry" has the same meaning prescribed in section 3-2151.
14. "Poultry product" has the same meaning prescribed in section 3-2151.
15. "Slaughter":
(a) Has the same meaning prescribed in section 3-2001.
(b) Includes the killing and preparation of any other animal for human consumption.
16. "Small game" has the same meaning prescribed in section 17-101.
