What's happening
This bill requires dietary and nutritional supplements sold in New York to be clearly labeled regarding FDA testing status.
Why it matters
Empowers consumers to make informed choices. by requiring clear labeling about whether supplements have been tested by the FDA, addressing widespread confusion about the safety and regulation of these products.
Places new compliance responsibilities on manufacturers and retailers. , who must ensure that all dietary and nutritional supplements sold in New York are accurately labeled according to the new standard, potentially increasing costs and operational changes.
Promotes transparency and may reduce misleading health claims. , since customers will be better able to distinguish between FDA-tested and untested products, which could influence purchasing decisions and public health outcomes.
Leaves flexibility in defining what counts as a 'dietary' or 'nutritional' supplement. to future state regulations, allowing for adaptation as the supplement market evolves but also creating uncertainty until those definitions are finalized.
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- Referred to agriculture
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3775
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the sale of dietary or nutritional supplements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 214-m of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by chapter 159 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
§ 214-m. Labeling of certain food products. 1. If any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or any other business association which processes, manufactures or imports food products has placed upon or accompanying the shipping container, shipping case, pallet or invoice of such food products, any information, whether in coded form or otherwise, which specifies the expiration, "use by" date or similar date; or the lot, batch, date of manufacture or processing or other information regarding the identity of the food product; it shall be unlawful to willfully alter, mutilate, destroy, obliterate or remove such information other than in connection with the destruction of the entire shipping container, shipping case, pallet or invoice. The provisions of this section and any regulations promulgated hereunder shall not be deemed to require any manufacturer, processor or importer of food products to so label any food product prior to distribution in the state or to prevent a manufacturer, processor or importer of food products from correcting or causing to be corrected any of the information accompanying the shipping container, shipping case, pallet or invoice. The provisions of this section shall not affect any provision of federal, state or local law, ordinance, rule or regulation regarding the placing of an expiration or "use by" date on the retail container of any food product.
2. No person shall manufacture, sell or expose for sale any product which shall be termed as a dietary supplement or nutritional supplement
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08224-01-9
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without branding or labeling such product with a statement which is clearly discernible to a customer that the product has or has not been tested by the United States food and drug administration. The terms dietary supplement and nutritional supplement shall be defined by regulations to be promulgated by the commissioner.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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