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AZ HB2044

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/13/2020

Primary Sponsor

David Cook

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2020)

AI Summary

  • Prohibits misrepresenting products not derived from harvested production livestock as meat or meat food products, defining "misrepresent" to include untrue, misleading, or deceptive oral or written statements, advertisements, labels, displays, pictures, illustrations, or samples.

  • Prohibits misrepresenting products not derived from harvested production poultry as poultry products, using the same definition of misrepresentation.

  • Updates poultry inspection and sale prohibitions to clarify that products "that may be used" as human food (rather than "which are capable of use") must comply with inspection and handling requirements.

  • Renumbers prohibited acts under poultry regulations from subsections 1-6 to 6-12 to accommodate the addition of the new misrepresentation prohibition.

  • Corrects outdated language throughout the statute, including replacing "his" with "the person's" and "which" with "that" for clarity.

Legislative Description

Meat; poultry; sale; misrepresentation

Food Labeling Requirements

Last Action

House read second time

1/16/2020

Full Bill Text

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