Requires products sold as not safe for human consumption or not intended for human consumption to be labeled with their ingredients and active chemical compounds; violations of such provisions shall constitute a class A misdemeanor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10447
IN ASSEMBLY
May 29, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. JEFFRIES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale and
labeling of products not safe for human consumption
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 390-d to read as follows:
3 § 390-d. Sale and labeling of products not safe for human consumption.
4 1. Every product sold in this state which is labeled or the container
5 of which is labeled "not safe for human consumption", "unfit for human
6 consumption" or with similar language, and every product sold in this
7 state which is not intended for human consumption shall have a label
8 affixed thereto, upon which there shall be plainly and conspicuously
9 printed a list of all ingredients and active chemical compounds which
10 comprise such product in letters and figures commensurate with the size
11 of the product or container as shall be determined and fixed by the
12 commissioner of agriculture and markets, in consultation with the
13 commissioner of health.
14 2. The requirements of this section shall apply in addition to any
15 other labeling requirements established pursuant to any other provision
16 of law.
17 3. Any violation of this section shall be a class A misdemeanor.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
19 it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, any
20 rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act
21 on its effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or
22 before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15441-03-2
