BILL NUMBER: SB 1333	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act relating to vitamin supplements.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1333, as introduced, Wyland. Vitamin supplement ingredients:
labeling: country of origin.
   The Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law contains various
provisions regarding the contents, packaging, labeling, and
advertising of food, drugs, and cosmetics.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish a program within the State
Department of Public Health to verify the country of origin for
ingredients used in vitamin supplements, and to require the country
of origin of vitamin ingredients to be labeled on the container of
all vitamin supplements sold in California.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish a program within the State
Department of Public Health to verify the country of origin for
ingredients used in vitamin supplements, and to require the country
of origin of vitamin ingredients to be labeled on the container of
all vitamin supplements sold in California.