Bill Text: CA SB770 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Department of Food and Agriculture: medicated feed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 806, Statutes of 2015. [SB770 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB770-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 770	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mendoza

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 14902.5 to the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to commercial feed.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 770, as introduced, Mendoza. Department of Food and
Agriculture: medicated feed.
   Existing law regulates the manufacture, distribution, and labeling
of commercial feed, and requires the Secretary of Food and
Agriculture to enforce those provisions and the regulations adopted
pursuant to those provisions. Existing law requires the secretary to
establish, by regulation, good manufacturing practices, hazard
analysis, and preventive control measures relating to commercial
feed, including verification and validation activities for all
commercial feed and additives, including medicated feed premixes and
medicated feeds. Existing law defines "medicated feeds" as commercial
feeds that contain drugs.
   This bill would require the department to continue to be the
primary regulatory agency over medicated feed, responsible for
regulating medicated feed quality assurance and medicated feed
safety, and enforcing any handling and inspecting requirements that
are imposed on medicated feed suppliers. The bill would also vest
with the department primary responsibility over medicated feed
ingredients and the sale of medicated feed that is subject to
veterinarian oversight.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide maximum benefit
for, and safety to, livestock feed consumers by consolidating
expertise in governance, feed safety, and enforcement of commercial
animal feed, and to maximize the coordination with federal government
on the implementation of feed safety laws such as the federal Food
Safety Modernization Act.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of
Food and Agriculture be the primary coordinator and implementing
agency for feed quality and safety issues in California.
   (c) When enforcing existing law, as it relates to medicated feed,
the department should coordinate with all other appropriate agencies,
including the State Department of Public Health.
  SEC. 2.  Section 14902.5 is added to the Food and Agricultural
Code, to read:
   14902.5.  Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall
continue to be the primary regulatory agency over medicated feed,
responsible for regulating medicated feed quality assurance and
medicated feed safety, and enforcing any handling and inspecting
requirements imposed on medicated feed suppliers. The department
shall also have primary responsibility over medicated feed
ingredients and the sale of medicated feed that is subject to
veterinarian oversight.