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AZ SB1275

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/30/2014

Primary Sponsor

Edward Ableser

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-first Legislature - Second Regular Session (2014)

AI Summary

  • Establishes a voluntary program administered by the Department of Health Services allowing food producers to display a department-designed logo on products sold in Arizona to identify them as produced without genetically engineered organisms.

  • Requires companies using the logo to submit a license agreement and comply with guidelines developed by the department, which must adopt rules identifying approved testing procedures and establishing program fees.

  • Permits logo display on four categories of qualifying products: animals not genetically engineered regardless of their feed, raw agricultural commodities grown without intentional use of genetically engineered seed, processed foods containing less than 0.9% genetically engineered materials by weight, and foods verified by independent organizations using approved testing procedures.

  • Specifies logo display locations as packaging for raw agricultural commodities and processed foods, shelf labels for unbundled commodities, and seed containers or sales receipts for seeds.

  • Terminates the program on July 1, 2024 pursuant to Arizona's sunset review statute.

Legislative Description

Nongenetically engineered food; labeling

Last Action

Referred to Senate HHS Committee

2/3/2014

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