Bill Text: CA AB418 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: The California Food Safety Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 328, Statutes of 2023. [AB418 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB418-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 418

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Introduced by Assembly Members Gabriel and Wicks

February 02, 2023

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An act to add Chapter 17 (commencing with Section 109025) to Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to food.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 418, as introduced, Gabriel. Food product safety.

Existing law provides for the regulation of the safety of food products, including adulterated and misbranded food, wholesale food, and food in retail food facilities.

This bill, commencing January 1, 2025, would prohibit a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale, in commerce a food product that contains any specified substance, including, among others, brominated vegetable oil and red dye 3.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Chapter 17 (commencing with Section 109025) is added to Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

CHAPTER  17. Food Safety

109025.

 Commencing January 1, 2025, a person or entity shall not manufacture, sell, deliver, distribute, hold, or offer for sale, in commerce a food product that contains any of the following substances:

(a) Brominated vegetable oil (CAS no. 8016-94-2).

(b) Potassium bromate (CAS no. 7758-01-2).

(c) Propylparaben (CAS no. 94-13-3).

(d) Red dye 3 (CAS no. 16423-68-0).

(e) Titanium dioxide (CAS no. 13463-67-7).