Bill Text: NY A01339 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that only products containing milk may use the term "milk product" on labels and advertisements; defines "milk product".

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A01339 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01339-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1339

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JONES, BLANKENBUSH, GOODELL, NORRIS, STIRPE,
          TAGUE, LUPARDO, FRIEND, WOERNER, GUNTHER, HAWLEY, J. M. GIGLIO -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to  the  sale  and
          labeling of milk and milk products

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
     2  16-A to read as follows:
     3                                ARTICLE 16-A
     4                 SALE AND LABELING OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS
     5  Section 266. Definitions.
     6          267. Selling and labeling of milk and milk products.
     7    § 266. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 1. "Milk"  shall
     8  mean  the  lacteal  secretion obtained from one or more healthy mammals,
     9  e.g., cows, goats, sheep, and water buffalo;
    10    2. "Milk products" shall mean food products made exclusively or  prin-
    11  cipally  from  milk, including, but not limited to, the following: milk,
    12  whole milk, lowfat milk, skim milk, cream,  half  and  half,  dry  milk,
    13  nonfat  dry  milk,  dry  cream, condensed or concentrated milk products,
    14  cultured or acidified milk or  milk  products,  kefir,  eggnog,  yogurt,
    15  butter,  cheese  (where  not specifically exempted by regulation), whey,
    16  condensed or dry whey or whey  products,  ice  cream,  ice  milk,  other
    17  frozen dairy desserts and products obtained by modifying the chemical or
    18  physical  characteristics  of  milk,  cream,  or whey by using cultures,
    19  enzymes, solvents, heat, pressure, cooling, vacuum, ultrafiltration,  or
    20  other  similar  processes,  and any such product made by the addition or
    21  subtraction of milkfat or the addition of  safe  and  suitable  optional
    22  ingredients.
    23    §  267. Selling and labeling of milk and milk products.  Only products
    24  that contain milk, as defined in section two hundred sixty-six  of  this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00117-01-3
        A. 1339                             2

     1  article,  shall use any of the terms defined as "milk products" pursuant
     2  to section two hundred sixty-six of this article on any label or  adver-
     3  tisement of such product.
     4    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of October next succeed-
     5  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.