Minnesota Legislature
HF 4703
as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 03/07/2024 02:43pm
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A bill for an act
relating to agriculture; defining cell-cultured meat and cell-cultured poultry;
requiring food labels to identify a product containing cell-cultured meat or
cell-cultured poultry; amending the definition of meat food product and poultry
food product to include cell-cultured meat and cell-cultured poultry; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 31.01, by adding subdivisions; 31.12; 31.633;
31A.02, subdivision 10.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 31.01, is amended by adding a subdivision
to read:
new text begin Subd. 33. new text end
new text begin Cell-cultured meat. new text end
new text begin
"Cell-cultured meat" means a meat food product grown
using animal cell technology that extracts a small number of cells from a living animal and
grows the cells in a controlled environment.
new text end
Sec. 2.
Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 31.01, is amended by adding a subdivision to
read:
new text begin Subd. 34. new text end
new text begin Cell-cultured poultry. new text end
new text begin
"Cell-cultured poultry" means a poultry food product
grown using animal cell technology that extracts a small number of cells from a living
animal and grows the cells in a controlled environment.
new text end
Sec. 3.
Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 31.12, is amended to read:
31.12 LABELING.
For the purpose of preventing fraud and deception in the manufacture, use, sale, and
transportation of food, or for the purpose of protecting and preserving the public health, it
shall be the duty of the commissioner, by deleted text begin rulingsdeleted text end new text begin rulesnew text end not inconsistent with law, to require
that any article of food, or the package, receptacle, or container thereof, before it be sold,
transported, used, offered for sale or transportation, or had in possession with intent to use,
sell or transport within this state, shall be labeled, stamped, stenciled, marked, or branded
in such manner as to plainly exhibit to the purchaser any or all of the following data or
information:
new text begin (1) new text end the percentages and true composition of such food articledeleted text begin ,deleted text end new text begin ;
new text end
new text begin (2)new text end its quality, strength, new text begin and new text end quantitydeleted text begin ,deleted text end new text begin ;
new text end
new text begin (3) thenew text end source of its manufacture or production or the person by or for whom the same
is manufactured, produced, packed, or shippednew text begin ; and
new text end
new text begin (4) if the product contains cell-cultured meat or cell-cultured poultry, then a statement
that the food is cell-cultured meat or cell-cultured poultrynew text end .
The commissioner shall also have authority to prescribe by such deleted text begin rulingsdeleted text end new text begin rulesnew text end the date on
which the same shall take effect and be in force, and also the form, size, style, and wording
of, and the place, time, method, means and manner of use of all such labels, stamps, stencils,
brands, and markings, which deleted text begin rulingsdeleted text end new text begin rulesnew text end shall be made in the manner provided by law.
deleted text begin Until such rulings are made and in effect the rulings heretofore made by the commissioner
shall remain in full force and effect, except as otherwise prescribed by law.deleted text end Any person
who shall fail to comply with such deleted text begin ruling or rulingsdeleted text end new text begin rulesnew text end shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 4.
Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 31.633, is amended to read:
31.633 MEAT OR POULTRY deleted text begin SUBSTITUTESdeleted text end ; INDICATION ON MENUdeleted text begin ;
PENALTIESdeleted text end .
Subdivision 1.
deleted text begin Menu requirementdeleted text end new text begin Meat or poultry substitutesnew text end .
Any restaurant, eating
place, or other establishment serving meat or poultry in any form to the public that has any
filler or meat or poultry substitute added to it or incorporated in it, shall clearly and
prominently indicate on its menu or bill of fare the meat entrees that contain filler or meat
or poultry substitutes.
new text begin Subd. 3. new text end
new text begin Cell-cultured meat or cell-cultured poultry. new text end
new text begin
Any restaurant, eating place, or
other establishment serving cell-cultured meat or cell-cultured poultry to the public must
clearly and prominently indicate on its menu or bill of fare the menu items that contain
cell-cultured meat or cell-cultured poultry.
new text end
Sec. 5.
Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 31A.02, subdivision 10, is amended to read:
Subd. 10.
Meat food product; poultry food product.
deleted text begin "deleted text end Meat food productdeleted text begin "deleted text end or deleted text begin "deleted text end poultry
food productdeleted text begin "deleted text end means a product usable as human food and made wholly or in part from meat
or poultry or a portion of the carcass of cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, wild game or fowl,
farmed Cervidae, as defined in section 35.153, subdivision 3, llamas, as defined in section
17.455, subdivision 2, Ratitae, as defined in section 17.453, subdivision 3, or goats. new text begin Meat
food product includes cell-cultured meat as defined in section 31.01, subdivision 33, and
poultry food product includes cell-cultured poultry as defined in section 31.01, subdivision
34. new text end deleted text begin "deleted text end Meat food productdeleted text begin "deleted text end or deleted text begin "deleted text end poultry food productdeleted text begin "deleted text end does not include products which contain
meat, poultry, or other portions of the carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, wild game or fowl,
farmed Cervidae, llamas, Ratitae, or goats only in a relatively small proportion or that
historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry,
and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product or poultry food product by
the commissioner under the conditions the commissioner prescribes to assure that the meat
or other portions of carcasses contained in the products are not adulterated and that the
products are not represented as meat food products or poultry food products.
deleted text begin "deleted text end Meat food product,deleted text begin "deleted text end as applied to products of equines, has a meaning comparable to
that for cattle, sheep, swine, wild game or fowl, farmed Cervidae, llamas, Ratitae, and goats.