View Amendment Current Amendment: AG to Bill 103

The Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources proposes the following amendment (SR-103.KM0002S):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 1, by striking Section 47-17-510(B) and (C) and inserting:

 Section 47-17-510. (A) A person who advertises, offers for sale, or sells all or part of a carcass shall not engage in any misleading or deceptive practices, labeling, or misrepresenting a product as "meat" or "clean meat" that is cell-cultured meat/protein, or is not derived from harvested production livestock, poultry, fish, or crustaceans. For the purposes of this section, :
  (1) "artificial or cell-cultivated food product" means any food product developed in a laboratory or facility and grown from a sample biopsy of living animal cells including, but not limited, to livestock, poultry, fish, or crustaceans, or other animal protien.; and
  (2) "sells, or holds or offers for sale" does not include retail sales except under the circumstances where a retailer is also the manufacturer.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to label any artificial or cell-cultivated food product as beef, poultry, fish, crustacean, or any other animal protein that the artificial or cell-cultivated food product may resemble for the purposes of advertising, manufacturing, selling, or holding or offering for sale in this State.
(C) Any No person who advertises, manufactures, sells, or holds or offers for sale any artificial or cell-cultivated food product in this State shall engage in a misleading or deceptive practice related to an artificial or cell-cultivated food product, including, but not limited to, misrepresenting an artificial or cell-cultivated food product as being derived from harvested production beef, poultry, fish, crustacean, or other animal protein. The front of all must place a notice on the artificial or cell-cultivated food's food product packaging must contain a conspicuous label that indicates that the artificial or cell-cultivated food product is not beef, poultry, fish, crustacean, or any other animal protein that the artificial or cell-cultivated food product may resemble. The notice on the packaging shall be at a minimum twenty percent of the front of the packaging and must be prominently printed in a font size no smaller than sixteen. Further, the notice shall state: "This product contains protein that was developed in a lab and grown from a biopsy of animal cells. The protein in this product is not naturally grown beef, poultry, fish, crustacean, or any other animal protein."

Amend the bill further, SECTION 1, by deleting Section 47-17-510(E) from the bill.

Renumber sections to conform.

Amend title to conform.