Adds a new article 30-B to the general business law entitled fast food restaurants; requires fast food restaurants, upon request, to disclose ingredients and nutritional information in foods sold; provides that a sign must be posted to notify customers of their right to this information; creates a civil penalty of not less than $50 or not more than $250 for each violation of this article.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2288
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to disclosure of
the ingredients and nutritional information of foods offered for sale
in fast food restaurants
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 article
2 30-B to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 30-B
4 FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS
5 Section 645. Disclosure of food ingredients and nutritional information
6 by fast food restaurants.
7 § 645. Disclosure of food ingredients and nutritional information by
8 fast food restaurants. 1. As used in this article, "fast food restau-
9 rant" means any franchised outlet of a restaurant chain that derives
10 thirty percent or more of its business from the sale of prepared, ready
11 to eat food, which is served in a container or wrapper and is consumed
12 on the premises.
13 2. Upon request, a fast food restaurant shall make available at the
14 restaurant the disclosure of the ingredients and nutritional informa-
15 tion, including items used in preparation, of each and every item of
16 food offered for sale at the restaurant to include the following:
17 (a) the common or usual name of the food or beverage;
18 (b) the names of the specific ingredients;
19 (c) each individual fat and/or oil ingredient of a food by its specif-
20 ic common or usual name;
21 (d) all nutrient quantities (including vitamins, minerals, calories,
22 protein, carbohydrate, fat, sodium and potassium) shall be declared in
23 relation to the average or usual serving; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (e) the names of the specific spices, artificial flavorings, artifi-
2 cial colorings and chemical preservatives.
3 3. All fast food restaurants shall permanently post in a conspicuous
4 place, a sign upon which there shall be imprinted in no less than
5 fifty-point bold type the following notice:
6 "UPON REQUEST YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBTAIN A LIST OF THE
7 INGREDIENTS OF FOOD OFFERED FOR SALE AT THIS RESTAURANT"
8 4. A violation of subdivision two or three of this section shall be
9 punishable by a civil penalty of not less than fifty dollars or not more
10 than two hundred fifty dollars for each violation.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
