Bill Text: TX HB2277 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to marketing and labeling requirements for certain food products, including imitation meat food products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-15 - Referred to Public Health [HB2277 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2277-Introduced.html
87R2782 SRA-F | ||
By: Rogers | H.B. No. 2277 |
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relating to marketing and labeling requirements for certain food | ||
products, including imitation meat food products. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 18, Agriculture Code, is | ||
amended by adding Sections 18.050, 18.0521, and 18.0522 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 18.050. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Egg" has the meaning assigned by Section 4(g), | ||
Egg Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 1033(g)). | ||
(2) "Egg product" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
4(f), Egg Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 1033(f)). | ||
(3) "Fish" has the meaning assigned by Section 403, | ||
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Section | ||
343(q)(4)(E)). | ||
(4) "Meat food product" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 1(j), Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section | ||
601(j)). | ||
(5) "Poultry" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
4(e), Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 453(e)). | ||
(6) "Poultry product" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 4(f), Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section | ||
453(f)). | ||
(7) "Standard of identity" means a standard of | ||
identity prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture | ||
for the labeling of eggs, egg products, fish, meat, meat food | ||
products, poultry, or poultry products or products derived from one | ||
of those items. | ||
Sec. 18.0521. MISLABELING OF FOOD PRODUCTS. A person | ||
violates this subchapter if, in order to directly or indirectly | ||
induce the purchase of a food product, the person labels, | ||
misbrands, or misrepresents the food product with: | ||
(1) a term that has a standard of identity, if the food | ||
product does not meet the standard of identity; | ||
(2) an image, depiction, or graphic of a livestock | ||
animal, if the food product does not contain a product derived from | ||
a livestock animal, unless the food product's label bears, in | ||
prominent type of uniform size, as applicable: | ||
(A) the word "imitation" immediately followed by | ||
the name of the product imitated; | ||
(B) "This product does not contain animal | ||
protein"; | ||
(C) the word "meatless"; | ||
(D) the words "meat free"; or | ||
(E) the words "egg free"; or | ||
(3) a claim that the food product is nutritionally | ||
similar or superior to a food product with a standard of identity | ||
unless the food product's label contains a factual comparison of | ||
the food products' nutritional values. | ||
Sec. 18.0522. ENFORCEMENT. The department shall: | ||
(1) enforce the proper use of standards of identity on | ||
food product labels to prevent consumer confusion and ensure the | ||
orderly and efficient marketing of agricultural and livestock | ||
products; and | ||
(2) to the extent practical and cost-effective, enter | ||
into a memorandum of understanding or interagency contract with the | ||
Department of State Health Services or another state agency to | ||
execute the department's responsibilities under this subchapter | ||
with respect to this section and Section 18.0521. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |