Amendment H-8239 to SF 2391
Prohibiting the misbranding of certain food products, and providing penalties
Withdrawn · April 3, 2024
Filed March 21, 2024 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment expands the bill to include protections for egg and milk products, not just meat products. It adds specific definitions for dairy animals, eggs, milk, and various terms used to describe them, and it requires manufactured proteins that resemble eggs or milk to use specific qualifying terms like "plant-based" or "dairy free."1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 1, after line 33 by inserting: “___. “Dairy animal” means an agricultural food animal classified as a cow, goat, or sheep that is actively producing milk.”
- Page 1, after line 35 by inserting: “___. a. “Egg” means a food product that is the reproductive output of an agricultural food animal classified as a chicken. b. “Egg” includes albumen and yolk encased in a calcium-based shell. ___. “Egg processing” means the processing of eggs that may include any of the following: a. The handling, preparation, and packaging of whole shelled or unshelled eggs. b. The handling, preparation, heating, and packaging of whole shelled or unshelled eggs. c. The breaking of eggs and the separation of eggs; pasteurization; filtering, mixing, stabilizing, or blending parts of the egg; any cooling, freezing, or drying of parts of the egg; storage; and packaging. ___. “Egg product” means a food product derived from egg processing in which eggs or egg parts are the primary ingredient.”
- Page 2, after line 5 by inserting: “___. a. “Identifying egg term” means any word or phrase that states, indicates, suggests, or describes an egg product, regardless of whether the word or phrase is used individually, as a portmanteau, or as a compound word. b. “Identifying egg term” includes but is not limited to any of the following: (1) (a) A common name for a type of a chicken, including laying hen, hen, or layer, cage-free, poultry, or fowl. (b) A common name for a characteristic of a chicken based on age, breed, or sex. (2) Any part of the egg, including its egg, eggshell, egg white, or yolk. (3) (a) A common name that a reasonable purchaser would immediately and exclusively associate with an egg product prepared for sale in normal commercial channels such as custard, eggnog, frittata, huevos rancheros, omelette, mayonnaise, meringue, sunny side up, over easy, over hard, scrambled, or quiche. (b) A comparable word or phrase as approved by the department.”
- By striking page 2, line 34, through page 3, line 2, and inserting “pepperoni, porterhouse, rib or sparerib, roast, salami, sausage, shank, sirloin, or tenderloin.”
- Page 3, before line 3 by inserting: “(e) A comparable word or phrase as approved by the department. ___. a. “Identifying milk term” means any word or phrase that states, indicates, suggests, or describes a milk product, regardless of whether the word or phrase is used individually, as a portmanteau, or as a compound word. b. “Identifying milk term” includes but is not limited to any of the following: (1) (a) A common name for a type of dairy animal, including cow, goat, or sheep. (b) A common name for a characteristic of a dairy animal based on age, breed, or sex. (2) (a) A common name that a reasonable purchaser would immediately and exclusively associate with a milk product prepared for sale in normal commercial channels such as butter, buttermilk, cheese, clabber, creme fraiche, eggnog, frozen custard, kefir, gelato, half-and-half, pudding, or yogurt. (b) A common name that a reasonable purchaser would immediately and exclusively associate with a type of cheese, including asiago, brie, bocconcini, burrata, camembert, cheddar, coija, colby, curd, edam, feta, emmental, fontina, gorgonzola, gouda, gruyere, halloumi, havarti, jalsberg, limburger, manchego, mascarpone, monterey jack, mozzarella, muenster, neufchatel, parmesan, paneer, provolone, ricotta, rommano, or roquefort. (c) A comparable word or phrase as approved by the department.”
- Page 3, by striking lines 13 through 15 and inserting: “___. “Manufactured-protein product” means a food product, if any of the following apply: a. It has one or more sensory attributes that resemble an egg product but that, in lieu of being the output of a chicken commonly referred to as a laying hen, is derived from manufactured plants or other organic materials. b. It is a cultivated-protein food product, insect-protein food product, or plant-protein food product. c. It has one or more sensory attributes that resemble a milk product but that, in lieu of being derived from the lacteal secretion of a dairy animal, is derived from manufactured plants or other organic materials.”
- Page 3, after line 21 by inserting: “___. “Milk” means the raw lacteal secretion of a dairy animal. ___. “Milk processing” means the processing of milk that may include any of the following: a. Grading, pasteurization, and homogenization. b. Any further physical or chemical operation, which may include separation, agitation, coagulation, fermentation, conversion, concentration, freezing, or drying; storage; and packaging. ___. “Milk product” means a food product derived from processing milk in which the milk is the primary ingredient.”
- Page 3, line 29, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products, meat products, or milk”
- Page 3, line 30, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- By striking page 3, line 31, through page 4, line 1, and inserting: “b. (1) “Qualifying term” includes but is not limited to fake, imitation, plant, plant-based, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian, or veggie. (2) “Qualifying term” also includes the following: (a) Eggless or egg free, for a manufactured-protein product that resembles an egg product. (b) Cell-cultivated, cell-cultured, insect, insect-based, insect-protein, lab-created, lab-grown, meatless, or meat free, for a manufactured-protein product that resembles a meat product. (c) Milk free or dairy free, for a manufactured-protein product that resembles a milk product. (d) A comparable word or phrase.”
- Page 4, line 8, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 4, line 13, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products, meat products, or milk”
- Page 4, line 21, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 4, line 23, by striking “manufactured-protein food” and inserting “manufactured-protein”
- Page 4, line 24, by striking “manufactured-protein food” and inserting “manufactured-protein”
- Page 4, line 30, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg term, identifying meat term, or identifying milk”
- Page 4, line 33, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg term, identifying meat term, or identifying milk”
- Page 5, line 1, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 5, line 6, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 5, line 11, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 5, line 17, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 5, line 19, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 5, line 28, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 7, line 7, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 7, line 11, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products, meat products, or milk”
- Page 7, line 16, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 7, line 20, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products, meat products, or milk”
- Page 7, line 24, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- Page 7, line 28, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products, meat products, or milk”
- Page 7, line 32, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product, meat product, or milk”
- By renumbering, redesignating, and correcting internal references as necessary.