STATE OF NEW YORK
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4574
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting the
use or sale of food products made with high-fructose corn syrup
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 1352-e to read as follows:
3 § 1352-e. High-fructose corn syrup; prohibition. No food item or prod-
4 uct containing high-fructose corn syrup shall be sold, stored, distrib-
5 uted, held for service, or used in preparation of any food product to be
6 served or sold in any restaurants, food service establishments, retail
7 food stores as defined in section five hundred of the agriculture and
8 markets law, and other food establishments. The commissioner is author-
9 ized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to
10 implement the provisions of this section.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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