Bill Text: NY A00507 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that only products containing milk may use the term "milk product" on labels and advertisements; defines "milk product".

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A00507 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00507-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           507

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  JONES,  GUNTHER,  LUPARDO,  SALKA,  HAWLEY,
          J. M. GIGLIO, B. MILLER, TAGUE, FRIEND, BLANKENBUSH, GOODELL,  NORRIS,
          STIRPE, WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer
          Affairs and Protection

        AN  ACT  to  amend the general business law, in relation to the sale and
          labeling of milk and milk products

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
     2  16-A to read as follows:
     3                                ARTICLE 16-A
     4                 SALE AND LABELING OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS
     5  Section 266. Definitions.
     6          267. Selling and labeling of milk and milk products.
     7    §  266. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 1. "Milk" shall
     8  mean the lacteal secretion obtained from one or  more  healthy  mammals,
     9  e.g., cows, goats, sheep, and water buffalo;
    10    2.  "Milk products" shall mean food products made exclusively or prin-
    11  cipally from milk, including, but not limited to, the  following:  milk,
    12  whole  milk,  lowfat  milk,  skim  milk, cream, half and half, dry milk,
    13  nonfat dry milk, dry cream, condensed  or  concentrated  milk  products,
    14  cultured  or  acidified  milk  or  milk products, kefir, eggnog, yogurt,
    15  butter, cheese (where not specifically exempted  by  regulation),  whey,
    16  condensed  or  dry  whey  or  whey  products, ice cream, ice milk, other
    17  frozen dairy desserts and products obtained by modifying the chemical or
    18  physical characteristics of milk, cream,  or  whey  by  using  cultures,
    19  enzymes,  solvents, heat, pressure, cooling, vacuum, ultrafiltration, or
    20  other similar processes, and any such product made by  the  addition  or
    21  subtraction  of  milkfat  or  the addition of safe and suitable optional
    22  ingredients.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04213-01-1
        A. 507                              2

     1    § 267. Selling and labeling of milk and milk products.  Only  products
     2  that  contain  milk, as defined in section two hundred sixty-six of this
     3  article, shall use any of the terms defined as "milk products"  pursuant
     4  to  section two hundred sixty-six of this article on any label or adver-
     5  tisement of such product.
     6    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of October next succeed-
     7  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.