Bill Text: PA SB598 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for offenses relating to food products.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-18 - Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS [SB598 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB598-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 607
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 598 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY COSTA, TARTAGLIONE, BOSCOLA, FONTANA, BREWSTER, YUDICHAK, LEACH, FERLO AND WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 18, 2011
REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 18, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for offenses
relating to food products.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4107.1 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 4107.1. Deception relating to [kosher] food products.
(a) Offense relating to kosher food defined.--A person
commits a misdemeanor of the third degree if in the course of
business, he knowingly sells or exposes for sale any food
product represented as kosher or kosher style when such food
product is not kosher, said representation having been made
orally, in writing or by display on the premises of such sign,
mark, insignia or simulation reasonably calculated to induce an
individual to believe that said food product is kosher.
(a.1) Offense relating to organic food defined.--A person
commits a misdemeanor of the third degree if in the course of
business, he knowingly sells or exposes for sale any food
product represented as organic when the food product is not
organically produced, the representation having been made
orally, in writing or by display on the premises of the sign,
mark, insignia or simulation reasonably calculated to induce an
individual to believe that the food product is organically
produced.
(a.2) Department of Agriculture.--It shall be the
responsibility of the Department of Agriculture to enforce this
subsection. A violation of this subsection may be reported to
the Department of Agriculture at a toll-free number established
and staffed by the department.
(b) Definitions.--As used in this section the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection:
"Food product." Any article whether in raw or prepared form
which is utilized in human consumption.
"Kosher" or "kosher style." A food product having been
prepared, processed, manufactured, maintained and vended in
accordance with the requisites of traditional Jewish Law.
"Organically produced." Foods certified as organically
produced under the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (Public
Law 101-624, 104 Stat. 3935) or other laws of the United States.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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