Bill Title: To exclude manufacturers and distributors of wine and distributors of beer from regulation as food processing establishments under the Pure Food and Drug Law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-23 - To Health, Human Services, & Aging
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As Introduced
| 129th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2011-2012 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Seitz, Beagle, Manning
A BILL
| To amend section 3715.021 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
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exclude manufacturers and distributors of wine and | 2 |
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distributors of beer from regulation as food | 3 |
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processing establishments under the Pure Food and | 4 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 3715.021 of the Revised Code be | 6 |
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amended to read as follows: | 7 |
| Sec. 3715.021. (A) As used in this section, "food processing | 8 |
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establishment" means a premises or part of a premises where food | 9 |
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is processed, packaged, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled | 10 |
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for distribution to another location or for sale at wholesale. | 11 |
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"Food processing establishment" includes the activities of a | 12 |
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bakery, confectionery, cannery, bottler, warehouse, or | 13 |
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distributor, and the activities of an entity that receives or | 14 |
salvages distressed food for sale or use as food.
A "food"Food | 15 |
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processing establishment" does not include a cottage food | 16 |
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production operation; a manufacturer or distributor of wine as | 17 |
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defined in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code; a distributor of | 18 |
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beer as defined in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code; a | 19 |
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processor of maple syrup who boils sap when a minimum of | 20 |
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seventy-five per cent of the sap used to produce the syrup is | 21 |
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collected directly from trees by that processor; a processor of | 22 |
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sorghum who processes sorghum juice when a minimum of seventy-five | 23 |
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per cent of the sorghum juice used to produce the sorghum is | 24 |
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extracted directly from sorghum plants by that processor; or a | 25 |
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beekeeper who jars honey when a minimum of seventy-five per cent | 26 |
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of the honey is from that beekeeper's own hives. | 27 |
| (B) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in | 28 |
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accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish, | 29 |
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when otherwise not established by the Revised Code, standards and | 30 |
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good manufacturing practices for food processing establishments, | 31 |
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including the facilities of food processing establishments and | 32 |
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their sanitation. The rules shall conform with or be equivalent to | 33 |
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the standards for foods established by the United States food and | 34 |
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drug administration in Title 21 of the Code of Federal | 35 |
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Regulations. | 36 |
| A business or that portion of a business that is regulated by | 37 |
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the department of agriculture under Chapter 917. or 918. of the | 38 |
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Revised Code is not subject to regulation under this section as a | 39 |
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food processing establishment. | 40 |
| Section 2. That existing section 3715.021 of the Revised Code | 41 |
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is hereby repealed. | 42 |
