Bill Text: NY A09604 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Supplements food and beverage nutrition labels with colors depending on the total amount of total fat, saturated fat, total sugars and sodium in such products.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-27 - referred to agriculture [A09604 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09604-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9604

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  supple-
          menting  food  and beverage nutrient information with colors depending
          on the total amount of the nutrient in such product

          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 214-p to read as follows:
     3    § 214-p. Nutrition labeling of food and beverage  products.  1.    Any
     4  food  or  beverage  with a nutritional fact label or other documentation
     5  from a manufacturer list identifying nutrients shall indicate the amount
     6  of total fat, saturated fat, total sugars and sodium  in  such  food  or
     7  beverage  and  supplement such information with a color depending on the
     8  amount of the nutrient in the product.
     9    2. The following nutrients shall be colored green if the food  product
    10  contains a total amount that is:
    11    (a)  less  than or equal to three grams per one hundred grams of total
    12  fat.
    13    (b) less than or equal to one and one-half grams per one hundred grams
    14  of saturated fat.
    15    (c) less than or equal to five grams per one hundred  grams  of  total
    16  sugars.
    17    (d)  less  than  or  equal  to  one  hundred twenty milligrams per one
    18  hundred grams of sodium.
    19    3. The following nutrients shall be colored amber if the food  product
    20  contains a total amount that is:
    21    (a)  between  three  and  seventeen and one-half grams per one hundred
    22  grams of total fat.
    23    (b) between one and one-half and five grams per one hundred  grams  of
    24  saturated fat.
    25    (c)  between  five  and  twenty-two and one-half grams per one hundred
    26  grams of total sugars.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14444-01-9

        A. 9604                             2

     1    (d) between one hundred twenty and  six  hundred  milligrams  per  one
     2  hundred grams of sodium.
     3    4.  The  following  nutrients shall be colored red if the food product
     4  contains a total amount that is:
     5    (a) more than seventeen and one-half grams per one  hundred  grams  or
     6  more than twenty-one grams per serving of total fat.
     7    (b)  more than five grams per one hundred grams or more than six grams
     8  per serving of saturated fat.
     9    (c) more than twenty-two and one-half grams per one hundred  grams  or
    10  more than twenty-seven grams per serving of total sugars.
    11    (d)  more  than  six  hundred milligrams per one hundred grams or more
    12  than seven hundred twenty milligrams per serving of sodium.
    13    5. The following nutrients shall be  colored  green  if  the  beverage
    14  contains a total amount that is:
    15    (a)  less  than  or  equal  to  one and one-half grams per one hundred
    16  milliliters of total fat.
    17    (b) less than or equal to three quarters grams per one hundred  milli-
    18  liters of saturated fat.
    19    (c)  less  than  or  equal  to  two and one-half grams per one hundred
    20  milliliters of total sugars.
    21    (d) less than or equal  to  one  hundred  twenty  milligrams  per  one
    22  hundred milliliters of sodium.
    23    6.  The  following  nutrients  shall  be colored amber if the beverage
    24  contains a total amount that is:
    25    (a) between one and one-half and eight and three  quarters  grams  per
    26  one hundred milliliters of total fat.
    27    (b)  between three quarters and two and one-half grams per one hundred
    28  milliliters of saturated fat.
    29    (c) between two and one-half and eleven and one quarter grams per  one
    30  hundred milliliters of total sugars.
    31    (d)  between  one  hundred twenty and three hundred milligrams per one
    32  hundred milliliters of sodium.
    33    7. The following nutrients  shall  be  colored  red  if  the  beverage
    34  contains a total amount that is:
    35    (a)  more than eight and three quarters grams per one hundred millili-
    36  ters or more than ten and one-half grams per serving of total fat.
    37    (b) more than two and one-half grams per one  hundred  milliliters  or
    38  more than three grams per serving of saturated fat.
    39    (c) more than eleven and one quarter grams per one hundred milliliters
    40  or more than thirteen and one-half grams per serving of total sugars.
    41    (d)  more than three hundred milligrams per one hundred milliliters or
    42  more than four hundred milligrams per serving of sodium.
    43    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    44  it shall have become a law.
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