Bill Text: NY A01486 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires poultry products treated with antibiotics containing arsenic to bear a label so indicating.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A01486 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01486-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1486
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee 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    S 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    S 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.
                                                                  LBD02671-01-3