BILL NUMBER: SB 550	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 20, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Florez
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Romero
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

    An act to add Part 5.5 (commencing with Section 111930)
to Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public
health.  An act to add Part 7.1 (commencing with Section
114450) to Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to
food safety. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 550, as amended, Florez. Public health: food product recall
technology.
   Existing law requires a meat or poultry supplier, distributor,
broker, or processor that sells a meat- or poultry-related product in
California that meets the criteria for a Class I or Class II recall
according to the United States Department of Agriculture guidelines
to immediately notify the State Department of Public Health and to
provide the department with a list of all customers, including a firm
name, address, contact person's name, telephone number, fax, and
e-mail address, that have received or will receive any product
subject to recall that the supplier, distributor, broker, or
processor has handled or anticipates handling.
   This bill would require a grocery store  that uses a
programmable checkout scanner   or grocery department,
as defined,  to ensure that when it is notified that a
product is subject to a recall that applies to all products with the
same Universal Product Code and  a recalled product is scanned,
the  programmable checkout scanner   store or
department's point-of-sale system, as defined,  will notify the
employee and  customer   consumer  that the
product being purchased is subject to a recall.
   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.    Part 7.1 (commencing with Section
114450) is added to Division 104 of the   Health and Safety
Code   , to read:  

      PART 7.1  GROCERY STORE RECALL TECHNOLOGY


   114450.  (a) A grocery store or grocery department that uses a
point-of-sale system and is informed that a product that the grocery
store or grocery department offers for sale is subject to a recall
that applies to all products with the same Universal Product Code
shall ensure that the point-of-sale system notifies the employee and
the consumer that the product is subject to a recall when the product
is scanned through the point-of-sale system.
   (b) For purposes of this section:
   (1)"Grocery department" means a food facility, as defined in
Section 113789, within a general retail merchandise store that is
engaged primarily in the retail sale of packaged food, instead of
food prepared for immediate consumption on or off the premises.
   (2) "Grocery store" means a food facility, as defined in Section
113789, that is engaged primarily in the retail sale of packaged
food, instead of food prepared for immediate consumption on or off
the premises.
   (3) "Point-of-sale system" means any computer or electronic system
used by a retail establishment such as, but not limited to,
Universal Product Code scanners, price lookup codes, or an electronic
price lookup system as a means for determining the price of the item
being purchased by a consumer.  
  SECTION 1.    Part 5.5 (commencing with Section
111930) is added to Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, to
read:

      PART 5.5.  Food Product Recall Technology


   111930.  A grocery store that uses a programmable checkout scanner
shall ensure that when a recalled product is scanned, the
programmable checkout scanner will notify the employee and customer
that the product being purchased is subject to a recall.