Exempts certain institutions involved in the processing of homemade baked goods, spices and powders, sold only at farmers' markets and roadside stands from the definition of a food processing establishment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7069
IN SENATE
March 10, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to exempt-
ing certain institutions involved in the processing of homemade baked
goods, spices, and powders, sold only at farmers' markets and roadside
stands from the definition of a food processing establishment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 251-z-2 of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as amended by chapter 507 of the laws of 1973, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 3. The term "food processing establishment" means any place which
5 receives food or food products for the purpose of processing or other-
6 wise adding to the value of the product for commercial sale. It
7 includes, but is not limited to, bakeries, processing plants, beverage
8 plants and food manufactories. However, the term does not include: those
9 establishments that process and manufacture food or food products that
10 are sold exclusively at retail for consumption on the premises; those
11 operations which cut meat and sell such meat at retail on the premises;
12 bottled and bulk water facilities; those food processing establishments
13 which are covered by articles four, [four-a, five-a, five-b, five-c,
14 five-d, seventeen-b, nineteen, twenty-b, and twenty-one] four-A, five-A,
15 five-B, five-C, five-D, seventeen-B, nineteen and twenty-one, and former
16 article twenty-B of this chapter; service food establishments, including
17 vending machine commissaries, under permit and inspection by the state
18 department of health or by a local health agency which maintains a
19 program certified and approved by the state commissioner of health;
20 establishments under federal meat, poultry or egg product inspection;
21 [or] establishments engaged solely in the harvesting, storage, or
22 distribution of one or more raw agricultural commodities which are ordi-
23 narily cleaned, prepared, treated or otherwise processed before being
24 marketed to the consuming public; or establishments that are engaged in
25 the processing of homemade baked goods, spices or powders to be sold
26 exclusively at farmers' markets or roadside stands.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 251-z-2 of the agriculture and markets
2 law, as added by chapter 863 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. The term "processing" means processing foods in any manner, such as
5 by manufacturing, canning, preserving, freezing, drying, dehydrating,
6 juicing, grinding, pickling, baking, brining, bottling, packing, repack-
7 ing, pressing, waxing, heating or cooking, or otherwise treating food in
8 such a way as to create a risk that it may become adulterated if improp-
9 erly handled.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
