Bill Text: NY A01034 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the posting of signs near pre-packaged salads offered for sale by retail food stores notifying consumers of the advisability of washing the produce before consumption and referring them to the federal department of health and human services, food and drug administration, for further information; such signs must be printed legibly with boldface type at least three-quarters of an inch.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-12 - enacting clause stricken [A01034 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01034-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1034
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. JACOBS,
         MILLMAN,  TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer
         Affairs and Protection
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
         posting of signs near pre-packaged salads
         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 213-a to read as follows:
    3    S  213-A. PRE-PACKAGED SALADS. 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION: (A) "RETAIL
    4  FOOD STORE" MEANS ANY STORE SELLING FOOD AT RETAIL, WHICH STORE  IS  NOT
    5  PRIMARILY ENGAGED IN THE SALE OF FOOD FOR CONSUMPTION ON THE PREMISES;
    6    (B)  "PRE-PACKAGED" MEANS A PACKAGE WHICH IS (I) NEITHER A HERMETICAL-
    7  LY-SEALED CAN NOR STORED AT OR BELOW A TEMPERATURE OF THIRTY-TWO DEGREES
    8  FAHRENHEIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE  INSTRUCTIONS  OF  A  MANUFACTURER  OR
    9  PROCESSOR,  AND (II) WHICH IS PACKAGED OTHER THAN AT THE PREMISES OF THE
   10  RETAIL FOOD STORE; AND
   11    (C) "SALAD" MEANS A PRODUCT CONSISTING MAINLY OF LEAFY RAW  VEGETABLES
   12  SUCH AS LETTUCE AND SPINACH.
   13    2.  (A)  ANY  RETAIL FOOD STORE WHICH OFFERS FOR SALE ANY PRE-PACKAGED
   14  SALADS SHALL CONSPICUOUSLY POST A SIGN SITUATED  SO  AS  TO  BE  CLEARLY
   15  VISIBLE  TO  ANY CONSUMER INSPECTING SUCH PRE-PACKAGED SALADS. SUCH SIGN
   16  SHALL READ: "NOTICE:  ALTHOUGH A PACKAGE FOR BAGGED SALADS MAY READ THAT
   17  WASHING IS NOT NECESSARY, IT IS ADVISABLE THAT THIS PRODUCE, ALONG  WITH
   18  ALL OTHER PRODUCE, BE WASHED THOROUGHLY BEFORE CONSUMPTION."
   19    (B) IN ADDITION, SUCH SIGN SHALL STATE THE CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS AND
   20  TELEPHONE NUMBER ESTABLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINIS-
   21  TRATION  FOR  RECEIVING  QUESTIONS  FROM  CONSUMERS REGARDING THE PROPER
   22  METHODS OF WASHING AND/OR SAFELY PREPARING PRE-PACKAGED  SALADS  OR  ANY
   23  OTHER FOOD PRODUCT.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00380-01-1
       A. 1034                             2
    1    3.  SUCH  SIGN  REQUIRED  PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION
    2  SHALL BE PRINTED WITH LETTERING THAT IS LEGIBLE AND SHALL  BE  AT  LEAST
    3  THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH BOLDFACE TYPE.
    4    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    5  have become a law.