Bill Text: NY A03878 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3878 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Supplements food and beverage nutrition labels with colors depending on the total amount of total fat, saturated fat, total sugars and sodium in such products.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to agriculture [A03878 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03878-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3878

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  supple-
          menting  food  and beverage nutrient information with colors depending
          on the total amount of the nutrient in such product

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 214-p to read as follows:
     3    § 214-p. Nutrition labeling of food and beverage  products.  1.    Any
     4  food  or  beverage  with a nutritional fact label or other documentation
     5  from a manufacturer list identifying nutrients shall indicate the amount
     6  of total fat, saturated fat, total sugars and sodium  in  such  food  or
     7  beverage  and  supplement such information with a color depending on the
     8  amount of the nutrient in the product.
     9    2. The following nutrients shall be colored green if the food  product
    10  contains a total amount that is:
    11    (a)  less  than or equal to three grams per one hundred grams of total
    12  fat.
    13    (b) less than or equal to one and one-half grams per one hundred grams
    14  of saturated fat.
    15    (c) less than or equal to five grams per one hundred  grams  of  total
    16  sugars.
    17    (d)  less  than  or  equal  to  one  hundred twenty milligrams per one
    18  hundred grams of sodium.
    19    3. The following nutrients shall be colored amber if the food  product
    20  contains a total amount that is:
    21    (a)  between  three  and  seventeen and one-half grams per one hundred
    22  grams of total fat.
    23    (b) between one and one-half and five grams per one hundred  grams  of
    24  saturated fat.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07445-01-1

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     1    (c)  between  five  and  twenty-two and one-half grams per one hundred
     2  grams of total sugars.
     3    (d)  between  one  hundred  twenty  and six hundred milligrams per one
     4  hundred grams of sodium.
     5    4. The following nutrients shall be colored red if  the  food  product
     6  contains a total amount that is:
     7    (a)  more  than  seventeen and one-half grams per one hundred grams or
     8  more than twenty-one grams per serving of total fat.
     9    (b) more than five grams per one hundred grams or more than six  grams
    10  per serving of saturated fat.
    11    (c)  more  than twenty-two and one-half grams per one hundred grams or
    12  more than twenty-seven grams per serving of total sugars.
    13    (d) more than six hundred milligrams per one  hundred  grams  or  more
    14  than seven hundred twenty milligrams per serving of sodium.
    15    5.  The  following  nutrients  shall  be colored green if the beverage
    16  contains a total amount that is:
    17    (a) less than or equal to one  and  one-half  grams  per  one  hundred
    18  milliliters of total fat.
    19    (b)  less than or equal to three quarters grams per one hundred milli-
    20  liters of saturated fat.
    21    (c) less than or equal to two  and  one-half  grams  per  one  hundred
    22  milliliters of total sugars.
    23    (d)  less  than  or  equal  to  one  hundred twenty milligrams per one
    24  hundred milliliters of sodium.
    25    6. The following nutrients shall be  colored  amber  if  the  beverage
    26  contains a total amount that is:
    27    (a)  between  one  and one-half and eight and three quarters grams per
    28  one hundred milliliters of total fat.
    29    (b) between three quarters and two and one-half grams per one  hundred
    30  milliliters of saturated fat.
    31    (c)  between two and one-half and eleven and one quarter grams per one
    32  hundred milliliters of total sugars.
    33    (d) between one hundred twenty and three hundred  milligrams  per  one
    34  hundred milliliters of sodium.
    35    7.  The  following  nutrients  shall  be  colored  red if the beverage
    36  contains a total amount that is:
    37    (a) more than eight and three quarters grams per one hundred  millili-
    38  ters or more than ten and one-half grams per serving of total fat.
    39    (b)  more  than  two and one-half grams per one hundred milliliters or
    40  more than three grams per serving of saturated fat.
    41    (c) more than eleven and one quarter grams per one hundred milliliters
    42  or more than thirteen and one-half grams per serving of total sugars.
    43    (d) more than three hundred milligrams per one hundred milliliters  or
    44  more than four hundred milligrams per serving of sodium.
    45    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    46  it shall have become a law.