Bill Text: VA HB2633 | 2025 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Misbranded food; manufactured-protein food products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (12-Y 10-N) [HB2633 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2025-HB2633-Comm_Sub.html
2025 SESSION
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE
25105780D
HOUSE BILL NO. 2633
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
on ________________)
(Patron Prior to Substitute—Delegate Wilt)
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 3.2-5402.1, relating to misbranded food; manufactured-protein food products.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 3.2-5402.1 as follows:
§ 3.2-5402.1. Misbranded meat food product prohibited.
A. For the purposes of this section:
"Identifying meat term" means any word or phrase, in whole or in part, that states, indicates, suggests, or describes a meat food product or poultry product.
"Manufactured-protein food product" means a cultivated-protein food product, fungus-protein food product, insect-protein food product, or plant-protein food product, or a protein food product that is not harvested directly from livestock or poultry.
"Qualifying term" means cell-cultivated, cell-cultured, fake, grown in a lab, imitation, insect-based, lab-created, lab-grown, meat free, meatless, plant, plant-based, vegan, vegetable, veggie, or a comparable word or phrase.
B. Any food product that purports to be or is represented as a meat food product or poultry product shall be determined to be misbranded if such food product (i) bears or contains a manufactured-protein food product; (ii) is offered for sale; and (iii) has a label that is part of or placed on the food product package or other container storing such food product that identifies the food as a meat food product or poultry product, unless such label bears a conspicuous and prominent qualifying term and is in close proximity to an identifying meat term. A meat food product or poultry product is not misbranded if the Department determines such meat food product or poultry product contains a trace amount of a manufactured-protein food product.
C. No person shall offer for sale or sell a food product that is misbranded pursuant to this section.
