Requires any person, firm or corporation offering any dairy product, meat, meat by-product, meat food product or perishable food item for sale in the state to label such product with an expiration date clearly visible in a conspicuous location; provides that such date shall be the time after which such item is unfit for human consumption as determined by industry standards; provides that no such products shall be allowed to remain on display or offered for sale after such date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8577
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 13, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK, ORTIZ, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. COLTON, CYMBROWITZ, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to expira-
tion dates on meat, milk, cheese and perishable food items
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding three
2 new sections 50, 96-k and 214-p to read as follows:
3 § 50. Expiration date. Any person, firm or corporation offering any
4 dairy product for sale in this state shall label such product with an
5 expiration date clearly visible in a conspicuous location. Such date
6 shall be the time after which such item is unfit for human consumption
7 as determined by industry standards. No dairy product shall be allowed
8 to remain on display or be offered for sale after such date.
9 § 96-k. Expiration date. Any person, firm or corporation offering any
10 meat, meat by-product or meat food product for sale in this state shall
11 label such product with an expiration date clearly visible in a conspic-
12 uous location. Such date shall be the time after which such item is
13 unfit for human consumption as determined by industry standards. No
14 meat products shall be allowed to remain on display or be offered for
15 sale after such date.
16 § 214-p. Expiration date. Any person, firm or corporation offering any
17 perishable food item, as defined in section seventy-one-y of this chap-
18 ter, for sale in this state shall label such item with an expiration
19 date clearly visible in a conspicuous location. Such date shall be the
20 time after which such item is unfit for human consumption as determined
21 by industry standards. No perishable food item shall be allowed to
22 remain on display or be offered for sale after such date.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13678-01-9
