NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A9619
SPONSOR: Hyndman
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the sale
of food and food products containing boneless lean beef trimmings,
commonly referred to as "pink slime", in schools
 
PURPOSE:
Prohibits the sale of food and food products containing boneless lean
beef trimmings, commonly referred to as "pink slime", in schools.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: The education law is amended by adding a new section 915-a.
Section 2: This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it,
shall have become a law.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Whenever a cow is butchered there are pieces that are cut off that
aren't considered "for" human consumption. There is a greater risk for
E. call and other nasty stuff in those parts of the cow These parts are
typically used mainly just for pet food. Using a centrifuge they can
separate the fat from the meat. Once they salvage this meat, there still
is the concern of potential illness to humans. The chemical ammonia is
then used to kill whatever bacteria may still exist. McDonald's, Burger
King, and Taco Bell, once known to use this product have all stopped
using pink slime. At a time when we as a state and even as a nation are
pulling together to promote healthier lifestyles and eating habits, why
would we subject our children to eating food that has until now only
been fed to our animals? Students within our schools whose bodies and
minds are growing and in need of the highest forms of nutrition, should
not'be subjected to eating substandard food products that hold very
little if any nutritional value.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-22: S4753 - Referred to Education
2019-20: S.4544 - Referred to Education
2017-18: S.3429 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2015-16: S.1768- Referred to Education
2013-14: S.6271- Referred to Education
2012-13: S.2994- Referred to Education
2011-12: S.678-Referred to Education
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9619
IN ASSEMBLY
March 26, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the sale
of food and food products containing boneless lean beef trimmings,
commonly referred to as "pink slime", in schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 915-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 915-a. Prohibiting the sale of food and food products containing
4 boneless lean beef trimmings. 1. No food or food product containing
5 boneless lean beef trimmings shall be sold in any public school within
6 the state.
7 2. For purposes of this section the term "boneless lean beef trim-
8 mings" shall mean and refer to the industrial product commonly referred
9 to as "pink slime" which is created by passing bones through a centri-
10 fuge after the limits of mechanically trimming such bones has been
11 reached in order to salvage any meaty materials remaining on such bones,
12 and then exposing such meaty materials to ammonia gas as a disinfectant
13 treatment.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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