Bill Text: HI SB637 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Aspartame; Food Products; Labeling Requirements

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to CPN. [SB637 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB637-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 349

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 637

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 637 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require a product warning label on all food products containing aspartame that are offered for sale or distribution in the State.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health, Hawaii Food Industry Association, Hawaii Restaurant Association, and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the American Beverage Association, Calorie Control Council, and International Food Information Council.

 

     Your Committee finds that the artificial sweetener aspartame has been the subject of several controversies since the United States Food and Drug Administration first approved it in 1981.  This measure addresses this issue by requiring a product warning label for aspartame on all food products offered for sale or distribution in the State.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 637 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair