Bill Text: NY A00849 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires poultry products treated with antibiotics containing arsenic to bear a label so indicating.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A00849 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00849-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 849 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, STECK, HOOPER, ABINANTI, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LUPINACCI, PERRY, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir- ing poultry products treated with antibiotics containing arsenic to bear a label so indicating The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new 2 section 96-z-30 to read as follows: 3 § 96-z-30. Arsenic labeling. No poultry or poultry product for human 4 consumption which has received food treated with antibiotics containing 5 arsenic, shall be sold, exposed for sale, exchanged or transported with- 6 in the state unless the same shall bear a label indicating such product 7 was "fed with antibiotics containing arsenic". 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 9 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 10 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 11 tation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or 12 before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03548-01-7
