HB 2633 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Misbranded food; manufactured-protein food products.

Summary
Misbranded food; manufactured-protein food products. Provides that a food is misbranded if it purports to be or is represented as a meat food product and such food product (i) bears or contains a manufactured-protein food product, as defined in the bill; (ii) is offered for sale; and (iii) has a label that is part of or placed on the food product package or other container storing such product that identifies the food as a meat food product, unless such label bears a conspicuous and prominent qualifying term and is in close proximity to an identifying meat term, as such terms are defined in the bill. The bill exempts a meat food product that the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services determines contains a trace amount of a manufactured-protein food product.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 13, 2025 Last action Jan 29, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Subcommittee Substitute · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill was amended from its original version to create a House substitute version. The main substantive change is the addition of a new subsection (C) that explicitly prohibits offering for sale or selling any food product that is misbranded under the new section. The bill also expanded its scope to include poultry products alongside meat products in both the definitions and prohibitions.
Scope change
The bill's scope was expanded to include poultry products in addition to meat products, and a new enforcement provision was added to explicitly prohibit the sale of misbranded products.
ENFORCEMENT

Added subsection C which explicitly prohibits any person from offering for sale or selling a food product that is misbranded under the new section.

SCOPE

Expanded the bill's scope to include poultry products alongside meat products in definitions and prohibitions.

DEFINITION

Updated the definition of 'Identifying meat term' to include poultry products, and expanded the prohibition language to cover both meat and poultry products.

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Total actions
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Committee
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Jan 21, 2025
Committee
Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
lower
Jan 13, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
lower
Jan 13, 2025
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 25104157D
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors

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