Bill Text: NY A02361 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that only products containing one hundred percent milk may use the term "milk" on labels and advertisements; such restriction shall allow for vitamin additives and shall not be prohibited.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-10 - held for consideration in consumer affairs and protection [A02361 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02361-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2361
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 16, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, BARCLAY, FINCH, HAWLEY, KOLB -- 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
         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
    5  SECTION 266. DEFINITIONS.
    6          267. SELLING AND LABELING OF MILK.
    7    S  266.  DEFINITIONS.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE: "MILK" SHALL
    8  MEAN A WHITISH LIQUID CONTAINING PROTEINS, FATS,  LACTOSE,  AND  VARIOUS
    9  VITAMINS  AND  MINERALS THAT IS PRODUCED BY THE MAMMARY GLANDS OF FEMALE
   10  COWS, GOATS, OR OTHER ANIMALS, USED AS FOOD BY  HUMANS;  INCLUDING  SUCH
   11  LIQUID, AS DESCRIBED HEREIN, AS MAY BE ALTERED BY VITAMIN ADDITIVES.
   12    S  267.  SELLING  AND LABELING OF MILK.   ONLY PRODUCTS CONTAINING ONE
   13  HUNDRED PERCENT MILK, AS DEFINED IN SECTION  TWO  HUNDRED  SIXTY-SIX  OF
   14  THIS ARTICLE, SHALL USE THE TERM "MILK" ON ANY LABEL OR ADVERTISEMENT OF
   15  SUCH  PRODUCT.  THE TERM "MILK" MAY BE USED IN THE NUTRITIONAL NOTATIONS
   16  OF ANY PRODUCT WHERE APPROPRIATE.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of October next  succeed-
   18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05154-01-5