Bill Text: CA SB701 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 701

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Bill Title: Fruit and vegetable wholesalers: registration fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 409, Statutes of 2023. [SB701 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB701-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 701

Introduced by Senator Hurtado

February 16, 2023

An act relating to food safety.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 701, as introduced, Hurtado. Food safety.

Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, requires the State Department of Public Health, whenever the department finds that a class of food distributed in the state may, by reason of contamination with micro-organisms during manufacture, packing, or storage, be injurious to the health of a man or other animal that consumes it, and that the injurious nature cannot be adequately determined after the food has entered commerce, to adopt regulations providing for the issuance of permits to manufacturers, processors, or packers of the class of food. Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, requires all food to be manufactured, produced, prepared, compounded, packed, stored, transported, kept for sale, and served so as to be pure and free from adulteration and spoilage.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding food and safety standards to ensure general food safety requirements are updated and aligned with the evolving goals of the Legislature.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding food and safety standards to ensure general food safety requirements are updated and aligned with the evolving goals of the Legislature.