Bill Text: IL HB1290 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Commercial Feed Act of 1961. Provides that pet food and specialty pet food are misbranded if the label fails to disclose whether the pet food contains a major food allergen. Defines "major food allergen" as milk, eggs, fish, crustaceans, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans, and food ingredients that contain protein derived from those foods.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1290 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1290-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1290 Introduced , by Rep. Jonathan Carroll SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
505 ILCS 30/8 from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 66.8
Amends the Illinois Commercial Feed Act of 1961. Provides that pet food and specialty pet food are misbranded if the label fails to disclose whether the pet food contains a major food allergen. Defines "major food allergen" as milk, eggs, fish, crustaceans, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans, and food ingredients that contain protein derived from those foods.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning agriculture.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Commercial Feed Act of 1961 is
amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
(505 ILCS 30/8) (from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 66.8)
Sec. 8. Misbranding. A commercial feed or customer-formula
feed is misbranded:
(a) If its labeling is false or misleading in any
particular.
(b) If it is distributed under the name of another
commercial feed.
(c) If it is not labeled as required in Section 5 of this
Act and in regulations prescribed under this Act.
(d) If it purports to be or is represented as a commercial
feed, or if it purports to contain or is represented as
containing a feed ingredient, unless the feed ingredient
conforms to the definition of identity, if any, prescribed by
the Association of American Feed Control Officials, as adopted
in Section 10 of this Act.
(e) If any word, statement or other information required
by or under authority of this Act to appear on the label or
labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such

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conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements,
designs or devices in the labeling) and in such terms as to
render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary
individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.
(f) In the case of commercial feed that is pet food or
specialty pet food, if the label fails to disclose whether the
pet food contains a major food allergen. As used in this Act,
"major food allergen" has the meaning provided in Section 3.07
of the Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-664.)