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- Referred to consumer protection
- Referred to consumer protection
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Title of bill
An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requiring disclosure labels on dairy products derived from cows injected with a certain synthetic bovine growth hormone
Purpose
To allow consumers who are purchasing dairy products from animals that have been treated with the synthetic growth hormone, bovine somatotropin, to be aware of this when they purchase these products. This bill would also require a milk producer to notify, by affidavit, his or her handler before using rBST in milk production.
Summary of provisions
Amends the Agriculture and Markets Law by adding new sections: 50 and section 256-c.
Legislative history
03/14/07 REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION 01/09/08 REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
Fiscal implications
None to State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of October next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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