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S. B. No. 287 As IntroducedAs Introduced
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Schiavoni, Seitz, Wagoner
A BILL
To amend section 3715.021 of the Revised Code to
exclude manufacturers of wine from regulation as
food processing establishments under the Pure Food
and Drug Law.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3715.021 of the Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3715.021. (A) As used in this section, "food processing
establishment" means a premises or part of a premises where food
is processed, packaged, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled
for distribution to another location or for sale at wholesale.
"Food processing establishment" includes the activities of a
bakery, confectionery, cannery, bottler, warehouse, or
distributor, and the activities of an entity that receives or
salvages distressed food for sale or use as food.
A "food "Food
processing establishment" does not include a cottage food
production operation; a manufacturer of wine as defined in section
4301.01 of the Revised Code; a processor of maple syrup who boils
sap when a minimum of seventy-five per cent of the sap used to
produce the syrup is collected directly from trees by that
processor; a processor of sorghum who processes sorghum juice when
a minimum of seventy-five per cent of the sorghum juice used to
produce the sorghum is extracted directly from sorghum plants by
that processor; or a beekeeper who jars honey when a minimum of
seventy-five per cent of the honey is from that beekeeper's own
hives.
(B) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in
accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish,
when otherwise not established by the Revised Code, standards and
good manufacturing practices for food processing establishments,
including the facilities of food processing establishments and
their sanitation. The rules shall conform with or be equivalent to
the standards for foods established by the United States food and
drug administration in Title 21 of the Code of Federal
Regulations.
A business or that portion of a business that is regulated by
the department of agriculture under Chapter 917. or 918. of the
Revised Code is not subject to regulation under this section as a
food processing establishment.
Section 2. That existing section 3715.021 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
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