AN ACT relating to cultured meat products.

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AN ACT relating to cultured meat products. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
Section 1. KRS 217.035 is amended to read as follows: 3
A food shall be deemed to be misbranded: 4
(1) If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular or its labeling or packaging 5
fails to conform with the requirements of KRS 217.037; 6
(2) If it is offered for sale under the name of another food; 7
(3) If it is an imitati on of another food for which a definition and standard of identity 8
has been prescribed by regulations as provided by KRS 217.135; or if it is an 9
imitation of another food that is not subject to subsection (7) of this section, unless 10
its label bears in type of uniform size and prominence, the word, imitation, and, 11
immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated; 12
(4) If its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading; 13
(5) If in package form, unless it bears a label containing: 14
(a) The name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor; 15
and 16
(b) An accurate statement of the net quantity of the contents in terms of weight, 17
measure, or numerical count, which statement shall be separately and 18
accurately stated in a uniform location upon the principal display panel of the 19
label; provided that reasonable variations shall be permitted, and exemptions 20
as to small packages shall be established, by regulations prescribed by the 21
secretary; 22
(6) If any word, statement, or other infor mation required by or under authority of KRS 23
217.005 to 217.215 to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed 24
thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, 25
designs, or devices, in the labeling) and in such term s as to render it likely to be 26
read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of 27
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purchase and use; 1
(7) If it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of 2
identity has been prescribed by regulations as provided by KRS 217.135 unless: 3
(a) It conforms to such definition and standard; and 4
(b) Its label bears the name of the food specified in the definition and standard, 5
and insofar as may be required by such regulations, the common names of 6
optional ingredients (other than spices, flavoring, and coloring) present in 7
such food; 8
(8) If it purports to be or is represented as: 9
(a) A food for which a standard of quality has been prescribed by regulations as 10
provided by KRS 217.135 and its quality falls b elow such standard unless its 11
label bears, in such manner and form as such regulations specify, a statement 12
that it falls below such standard; or 13
(b) A food for which a standard or standards of fill of container have been 14
prescribed by regulation as provid ed by KRS 217.135 and it falls below the 15
standard of fill of container applicable thereto, unless its label bears, in such 16
manner and form as such regulations specify, a statement that it falls below 17
such standard; 18
(9) If it is not subject to the provision s of subsection (7) of this section, unless it bears 19
labeling clearly giving: 20
(a) The common or usual name of the food, if any there be; and 21
(b) In case it is fabricated from two (2) or more ingredients, the common or usual 22
name of each such ingredient, ex cept that spices, flavorings, and colorings, 23
other than those sold as such, may be designated as spices, flavorings, and 24
colorings, without naming each; provided that, to the extent that compliance 25
with this subsection is impractical or results in deceptio n or unfair 26
competition, exemptions shall be established by regulations promulgated by 27
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the secretary; 1
(10) If it purports to be or is represented for special dietary uses, unless its label bears 2
such information concerning its vitamin, mineral, and other dietary properties as the 3
secretary determines to be, and by regulations prescribes as, necessary in order to 4
fully inform purchasers as to its value for such uses; 5
(11) If it bears or contains any artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, or chemical 6
preservative, unless it bears labeling stating that fact; provided that to the extent that 7
compliance with the requirements of this subsection is impracticable, exemptions 8
shall be established by regulations promulgated by the secretary; 9
(12) If it is a product intended as an ingredient of another food and when used according 10
to the directions of the purveyor will result in the final food product being 11
adulterated or misbranded; 12
(13) If it is a raw agricultural commodity which is the produce of the soil, bearin g or 13
containing a pesticide chemical applied after harvest, unless the shipping container 14
of such commodity bears labeling which declares the presence of such chemical in 15
or on such commodity and the common or usual name and the function of such 16
chemical; provided, however, that no such declaration shall be required while such 17
commodity, having been removed from the shipping container, is being held or 18
displayed for sale at retail out of such container in accordance with the custom of 19
the trade; or 20
(14) If it is a color additive unless its packaging and labeling are in conformity with such 21
packaging and labeling requirements applicable to such color additive prescribed 22
under the provisions of the federal act[; or 23
(15) If it purports to be or is represented a s meat or a meat product and it contains any 24
cultured animal tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the 25
organism from which it is derived]. 26
Section 2. KRS 217.175 is amended to read as follows: 27
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The following acts and the causing thereof within the Commonwealth of Kentucky are 1
hereby prohibited: 2
(1) The manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding or offering for sale of any food, drug, 3
device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; 4
(2) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic; 5
(3) The receipt in commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated 6
or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise; 7
(4) The sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of any article in 8
violation of KRS 217.075; 9
(5) The dissemination of any false advertisement; 10
(6) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample or to 11
permit access to records or evidence, as authorized by KRS 217.155; 12
(7) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking which guaranty or undertaking is false, 13
except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the same effect 14
signed by, and containing the name and address of the person residing in the 15
Commonwealth of Kentucky from whom he received in good faith the food, drug, 16
device, or cosmetic; 17
(8) The removal or dis posal of a detained or quarantined article in violation of KRS 18
217.115; 19
(9) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any 20
part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to a food, drug, 21
device, or cosmetic, if such act is done while such article is held for sale and results 22
in such article being adulterated or misbranded; 23
(10) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or without proper 24
authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other identification device authorized 25
or required by regulations promulgated under the provisions of KRS 217.005 to 26
217.215; 27
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(11) The using, on the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement relating to such drug, 1
of any representation or suggestion that any application with respect to such drug is 2
effective under KRS 217.075, or that such drug complies with the provisions of 3
such section; 4
(12) The manufacture, sale, or exchange of any filled milk; 5
(13) The manufacture, mixing, compounding, selling , or offering for sale of any flour 6
unless the same is enriched; provided that this prohibition shall not apply to flour 7
sold to bakeries or other commercial secondary processors, which flour is used only 8
in the production of enriched flour or enriched bre ad or in the manufacture of 9
products not required to be enriched; 10
(14) The manufacture, baking, sale, or offering for sale of any bread except bread 11
conforming to the definition of enriched bread; and 12
(15) The manufacture, sale, or exchange of any meat or meat product that contains 13
cultured animal tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the 14
organism from which it is derived. 15