Requires perishable and packaged food to be clearly marked with safety and quality dates.
Relates to the disposal of seized perishable or canned foods; provide such foods should not be disposed of but should be donated to a food relief organization or homeless shelter.
Requires food service establishments to make deliveries of food in tamper evident packaging.
Enacts the "food service packaging recycling funding act" in order to provide sustainable funding to increase the state's infrastructure investment for the diversion of food service packaging materials from disposal, assist in establishing domestic end-use markets for recovered food service packaging materials and reduce litter and marine debris attributable to food service packaging materials.
Requires the creation of a thirteen member advisory board within the department of agriculture and markets on food safety and inspection programs; establishes such board is to advise, counsel and confer with the commissioner of agriculture and markets on matters dealing with enforcement of laws and regulations regarding food safety and protection and shall make recommendations regarding any necessary statutory or regulatory changes.
Requires food products using ingredients classified as major food allergens to be labelled or branded as such; requires food sellers to provide written notice to stores for food labels containing new ingredients classified as major food allergens; requires such foods are labeled or branded as such by a food seller until such food has appropriately labeled packaging.
Requires any person, firm or corporation offering any dairy product, meat, meat by-product, meat food product or perishable food item for sale in the state to label such product with an expiration date clearly visible in a conspicuous location; provides that such date shall be the time after which such item is unfit for human consumption as determined by industry standards; provides that no such products shall be allowed to remain on display or offered for sale after such date.
Requires every food establishment to label all prepackaged food with a written notification on the package or on a label attached to the package identifying all ingredients and labeling for major food allergens in such form and manner as required pursuant to the federal Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004, as amended.
Requires every food establishment to label all prepackaged food with a written notification on the package or on a label attached to the package identifying all ingredients and labeling for major food allergens in such form and manner as required pursuant to the federal Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004, as amended.
Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan.