Bill Text: CA SCA23 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Food safety: antibiotics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-06-24 - From print. May be acted upon on or after July 24. [SCA23 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SCA23-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCA 23	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Florez

                        JUNE 23, 2009

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Article X C
thereto, relating to food safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCA 23, as introduced, Florez. Food safety: antibiotics.
   California statutory law provides that the Secretary of Food and
Agriculture may order any animal raised for the production of any
food product, to be held and segregated if the secretary determines
that the animal is or may be carrying in its body pesticides,
poisons, or other deleterious substances, including, among others,
antibiotics, which may render any food product from the animal
injurious to human health.
   This measure would provide that, as of January 1, 2015, no person
shall, for a nontherapeutic purpose, cause any animal raised for the
production of any human food product to ingest, or administer to any
such animal, any antibiotic. This measure would make the violation of
that provision a misdemeanor.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.



   Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2009-10 Regular Session
commencing on the first day of December 2008, two-thirds of the
membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of
the State of California, that the Constitution of the State be
amended as follows:
    That Article X C is added thereto, to read:
      ARTICLE X C

Food Safety


      SECTION 1.  (a) On or after January 1, 2015, no person shall,
for a nontherapeutic purpose, cause any animal raised for the
production of any human food product to ingest, or administer to any
such animal, any antibiotic.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "antibiotic" means any drug
intended for use in any animal raised for the production of any human
food product that is composed wholly or partly of either of the
following:
   (1) Any kind of penicillin, tetracycline, macrolide, lincosamide,
streptogramin, minoglycoside, or sulfonamide.
   (2) Any other drug or derivative of a drug that is used in humans,
or intended for use in humans, to treat or prevent disease or
infection caused by micro-organisms.
   (c) For purposes of this section, a "nontherapeutic purpose" means
a routine purpose in the absence of any clinical sign of disease,
and includes any use of a drug for growth promotion, feed efficiency,
weight gain, or routine disease prevention.
   (d) Any person who violates this section is guilty of a
misdemeanor.