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Amendment H-8256 to SF 2391
Prohibiting the misbranding of certain food products, and providing penalties
Ruled out of order · April 3, 2024
Filed March 28, 2024 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment expands the bill to include protections for egg products in addition to meat products. It adds specific definitions for eggs, egg processing, and terms used to identify egg products, and it requires that plant-based or lab-grown products resembling eggs must be clearly labeled as imitations.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- By striking page 1, line 3, through page 4, line 22, and inserting: “___. 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 -1- H 8239.3910 (1) 90 da/ns 1/ 4 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 35, through page 3, line 2, and inserting “pepperoni, porterhouse, rib or sparerib, ribeye, 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.” ___. 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.” ___. Page 3, line 29, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products or meat” ___. Page 3, line 30, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. 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 -2- H 8239.3910 (1) 90 da/ns 2/ 4 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) A comparable word or phrase.” ___. Page 4, line 8, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. Page 4, line 13, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products or meat” ___. Page 4, line 21, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat””
- By striking page 4, line 27, through page 5, line 21, and inserting: “___. Page 4, line 30, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg term or identifying meat” ___. Page 4, line 33, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg term or identifying meat” ___. Page 5, line 1, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. Page 5, line 6, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. Page 5, line 11, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. Page 5, line 17, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. Page 5, line 19, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg product or meat” ___. Page 5, line 28, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. Page 7, line 7, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. Page 7, line 11, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products or meat” ___. Page 7, line 16, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an -3- H 8239.3910 (1) 90 da/ns 3/ 4 egg product or meat” ___. Page 7, line 20, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products or meat” ___. Page 7, line 24, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat” ___. Page 7, line 28, by striking “meat” and inserting “egg products or meat” ___. Page 7, line 32, by striking “a meat” and inserting “an egg product or meat””
- Page 5, before line 22 by inserting: “___. Page 7, after line 35 by inserting: “Sec. ___. SEVERABILITY. Pursuant to section 4.12 providing for the severability of all Acts and statutes, if any provision of this Act or the application of this Act to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Act which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application and, to this end, the provisions of this Act are severable.””
- By renumbering, redesignating, and correcting internal references as necessary.