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H440 • 2025

Healthy Food Healthy Bodies.

Healthy Food Healthy Bodies.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Winslow, Almond, Lambeth, Loftis, Cairns, Echevarria, McNeely, Zenger
Last action
2025-03-27
Official status
Re-ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Agriculture and Environment, if favorable, Judiciary 1, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
2027-01-01

Plain English Breakdown

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Healthy Food Healthy Bodies.

Healthy Food Healthy Bodies.

What This Bill Does

  • Healthy Food Healthy Bodies.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-27 House

    Re-ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Agriculture and Environment, if favorable, Judiciary 1, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-03-27 House

    Withdrawn From Com

  3. 2025-03-27 House

    Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken

  4. 2025-03-26 House

    Re-ref to the Com on Regulatory Reform, if favorable, Health, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  5. 2025-03-26 House

    Withdrawn From Com

  6. 2025-03-20 House

    Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  7. 2025-03-20 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  8. 2025-03-18 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Healthy Food Healthy Bodies.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 440

Short Title: Healthy Food Healthy Bodies. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Winslow, Almond, Lambeth, and Loftis (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
March 20, 2025
*H440-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO LABEL FOOD S WITH VACCINES AND PROHIBIT HARMFUL FOO D 2
ADDITIVES. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
5
PART I. CLASSIFYING FOODS CONTAINING VACCINES AS DRUGS 6
SECTION 1. G.S. 106-121 reads as rewritten: 7
"§ 106-121. Definitions and general consideration. 8
For the purpose of this Article: 9
… 10
(6) The term "drug" means 11
a. Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, 12
official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official 13
National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them; and 14
b. Articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment 15
or prevention of disease in man or other animals; and 16
c. Articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any 17
function of the body of man or other animals; and 18
d. Articles intended for use as a component of any article specified in 19
paragraphs a, b or c; but does not include devices or their components, 20
parts, or accessories. 21
e. Food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material. 22
… 23
(14g) The term "vaccine or vaccine material " means a substance intended to 24
stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against disease 25
that is (i) prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a 26
synthetic substitute to act as an antigen without inducing the disease and (ii) 27
authorized or approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration 28
for use in humans. 29
…." 30
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PART II. INCREASING REGULATION AGAINST HARMFUL ADDITIVES TO FOOD 32
SECTION 2.(a) Article 12 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes is amended by 33
adding a new section to read: 34
"§ 106-129.1. Prohibited food additives. 35
General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
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A person shall not manufacture, sell, distribute, hold, or offer for sale in commerce a food 1
product for human consumption that contains any of the following substances: 2
(1) Brominated vegetable oil (Chemical Abstract Services number 8016-94-2). 3
(2) Potassium bromate (Chemical Abstract Services number 7758-01-2). 4
(3) Propylparaben (Chemical Abstract Services number 94-13-3). 5
(4) Red 40 (Chemical Abstract Services number 25956-17-6). 6
(5) Yellow 5 (Chemical Abstract Services number 1934-21-0). 7
(6) Yellow 6 (Chemical Abstract Services number 2783-94-0). 8
(7) Blue 1 (Chemical Abstract Services number 68921-42-6). 9
(8) Blue 2 (Chemical Abstract Services number 860-22-0). 10
(9) Green 3 (Chemical Abstract Services number 1342-22-9)." 11
SECTION 2.(b) G.S. 106-124.1 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 12
"(a1) A person who violates G.S. 106-129.1 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed 13
five thousand dollars ($5,000) for a first violation and not to exceed ten thousand dollars 14
($10,000) for each subsequent violation. The remedies under this subsection are in addition to, 15
and not in lieu of, any other remedies available under any other provision of law." 16
SECTION 2.(c) This section becomes effective January 1, 2027. 17
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PART III. EFFECTIVE DATE 19
SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes 20
law. 21