Country of origin label-USA beef.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0548
Introduced
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0198

Country of origin label-USA beef.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hunt, Blake, Flitner, Gierau, Laursen and Northrup and Senator(s) Christensen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to food labeling; requiring country of origin labeling for beef that is a product of the United States of America, and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section
1
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W.S. 35
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7
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119(
e) is amended to read:

35
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7
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119
.

Fair packaging and labeling provisions.

(e)

Every retailer and every wholesaler who sells or offers for sale in this state through an establishment or otherwise any meat, which is the product of any country
foreign to the United States, shall clearly label the meat as "imported," naming the country of its origin
.
Every retailer and every wholesaler who sells or offers for sale in this state through an establishment or otherwise any
beef which is the product of the United States shall clearly label the beef as a product of the United States of America
.
The department shall promulgate rules and regulations with respect to labeling. As used in this subsection:

(i
)

"Beef" means any meat from cattle, including veal;

(
i
)
(ii)

"Meat" means the edible part of the muscle of animals, which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying or overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing, but shall not include the muscle found in the lips, snout
or ears, nor any edible part of the muscle which has been manufactured, cured, smoked, cooked or processed;

(ii)
(iii)

"Retailer" means a person regularly engaged in the business of selling meat at retail to the public, and selling only to the user or consumer and not for resale;

(iii)
(iv)

"Wholesaler" means a person regularly engaged in the business of selling meat at wholesale to retailers for subsequent sale at retail to the public.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2017
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