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ORIGINAL Senate
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SF0084
ENROLLED ACT NO. 51,
SENATE
SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2025 General Session
AN ACT relating to food labeling; authorizing country of origin labeling for beef that is a product of the United States of America; authorizing labeling for beef that is a product of the state of Wyoming; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; 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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111(a)(xiii)(A) and 35
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119(e)(ii), by creating new paragraphs (iii) through (v) and by amending and renumbering (iii) as (vi) are amended to read:
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111.
Prohibited acts.
(a)
No person shall:
(xiii)
Include the term "meat" or any synonymous term for meat or a specific animal species in labeling, advertising or other sales promotion unless the product:
(A)
Is consistent with the definition of meat in W.S.
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119(e)(iii)(A)
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119(e)(vi)(A)
; and
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119.
Fair packaging and labeling provisions.
(e)
The department shall promulgate rules with respect to labeling. Every retailer and every wholesaler who sells or offers for sale in this state through an establishment or otherwise any:
(ii)
Cell cultured or plant based products not consistent with the definition of meat in subparagraph
(iii)(A)
(vi)(A)
of this subsection and not derived from harvested livestock, poultry, wildlife or exotic livestock as those terms are defined in W.S. 11
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101(a), 11
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102(a)(xvi), shall clearly label cell cultured products as "containing cell cultured product" and clearly label plant based products as "vegetarian", "veggie", "vegan", "plant based" or other similar term indicating that the product is plant based;
(iii)
Only beef that is derived from cattle born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the United States may clearly be labeled as a product of the United States of America;
(iv)
Only beef that is derived from cattle born and raised in the state of Wyoming may clearly be labeled as a product of Wyoming;
(v)
Beef that is of undeterminable origin or that has not been born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the United States of America shall not be labeled as a product of the United States of America;
(iii)
(vi)
As used in this subsection:
(A)
"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;
(B)
"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;
(C)
"Wholesaler" means a person regularly engaged in the business of selling meat at wholesale to retailers for subsequent sale at retail to the public
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(D)
"Beef" means any meat from cattle, including veal.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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(END)
Speaker of the House
President of the Senate
Governor
TIME APPROVED: _________
DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.
Chief Clerk
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