He asks a great question….
Serious question why doesn't @JudyForAZ want Arizonans to know where their meat is coming from??? This is a perfect example of being out of touch with voters because a lobbyist is more important than citizens rights. pic.twitter.com/eGVsxHN3GH
— Jeff Nelson (@jeffreym_nelson) February 1, 2024
Serious question why doesn’t @JudyForAZ want Arizonans to know where their meat is coming from??? This is a perfect example of being out of touch with voters because a lobbyist is more important than citizens rights…
HB 2244: misbranding; misrepresenting; food products Sponsor: Representative Nguyen, LD 1
Prohibits a person from intentionally misbranding a product that is not derived from livestock or poultry as meat or poultry and allows the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) to adopt applicable rules.
History
Statute provides several cases in which a food can be misbranded, including if: 1) its labeling is false or misleading; 2) it is offered for sale under the name of another food with or without other descriptive words, or under any name which is likely to be misleading; or 3) any required word, statement or other information does not prominently appear on the label compared to other words or statements (A.R.S. § 36-906).
The process of cultivating animal cells for human food involves using cells obtained from living livestock, poultry, seafood or other animals and growing them in a controlled environment to create food.
Currently, this process is regulated jointly by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2019, the FDA and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the USDA established a formal agreement on how to regulate human food made from cultured animal cells. Under the agreement, the FDA oversees the collection, growth and the differentiation of living cells into various cell types, such as proteins and fats. Regulatory jurisdiction is then transferred to FSIS, which oversees the harvesting stage of the cell-culturing process and any further processing, labeling and packaging of the products (USDA).
Provisions
- Prohibits a person who labels a food product from intentionally misbranding or misrepresenting a product that is not derived from livestock or poultry as meat, a meat food product, poultry or a poultry product through any activity by:
- affixing a false or misleading label on meat, a meat food product, poultry or a poultry product;
- using a term that is the same as or deceptively similar to a term that is used or defined historically in reference to a specific meat food or poultry product;
- representing a cell-cultured food product as meat, a meat food product, poultry or a poultry product; or
- representing a synthetic product derived from a plant, insect or other source as meat, a meat food product, poultry or a poultry product. (Sec. 1)