Bill Text: NY A07109 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting certain restaurants and food establishments from serving foods containing artificial trans fat.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - print number 7109a [A07109 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A07109-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7109--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 23, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, GALEF, ABINANTI, MOSLEY, SEPULVEDA, SKAR- TADOS, SKOUFIS, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FAHY, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting certain restaurants and food establishments from serving foods containing artificial trans fat The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 1352-f to read as follows: 3 § 1352-f. Artificial trans fat; prohibition. 1. No food containing 4 artificial trans fat, as defined in this section, shall be stored, 5 distributed, held for service, used in preparation of any menu item, 6 served or sold in any restaurants, food service establishments, mobile 7 food service establishments, mobile food service establishment commis- 8 saries, retail food stores as defined in section five hundred of the 9 agriculture and markets law, and other food establishments, subject to 10 the provisions of section thirteen hundred fifty-one of this title, 11 except food that is served or sold directly to patrons in a manufactur- 12 er's original sealed package that bears a nutrition facts label consist- 13 ent with federal law and regulation. 14 2. For the purposes of this section, a food shall be deemed to contain 15 artificial trans fat if the food is labeled as, lists as an ingredient, 16 or contains vegetable shortening, margarine or any kind of partially 17 hydrogenated vegetable oil. However, a food whose nutrition facts label 18 or other documentation from the manufacturer lists the trans fat content 19 of the food as less than 0.5 grams per serving shall not be deemed to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03576-04-6
