HOUSE BILL No. 5679

 

January 31, 2008, Introduced by Reps. Walker, Elsenheimer, Sheltrown, Palsrok, Hansen, Booher, Ball, Stahl and Mayes and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

 

     A bill to amend 2000 PA 92, entitled

 

"Food law of 2000,"

 

by amending section 1107 (MCL 289.1107).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1107. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Department" means the Michigan department of agriculture.

 

     (b) "Director" means the director of the Michigan department

 

of agriculture or his or her designee.

 

     (c) "Extended retail food establishment" means a retail

 

grocery that does both of the following:

 

     (i) Serves or provides an unpackaged food for immediate

 

consumption.

 

     (ii) Provides customer seating in the food service area.

 

     (d) "Federal act" means the federal food, drug, and cosmetic

 

act, chapter 675, 52 Stat. 1040. , 21 U.S.C. 301 to 321, 331 to


 

333, 334 to 343-3, 344 to 346a, 347, 348 to 356c, 358 to 360, 360b

 

to 360dd, 360hh to 363, 371 to 376, and 378 to 397.

 

     (e) "Food" means articles used for food or drink for humans or

 

other animals, chewing gum, and articles used for components of any

 

such article.

 

     (f) "Food additive" means any substance, the intended use of

 

which, directly or indirectly, results in or may be reasonably

 

expected to result in its becoming a component or otherwise

 

affecting the characteristics of any food if that substance is not

 

generally recognized among experts as having been adequately shown

 

through scientific procedures to be safe under the conditions of

 

its intended use. Food additive includes any substance intended for

 

use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing,

 

treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food and includes any

 

source of radiation intended for any use. Food additive does not

 

include any of the following:

 

     (i) A pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity.

 

     (ii) A pesticide chemical to the extent that it is intended for

 

use or is used in the production, storage, or transportation of any

 

raw agricultural commodity.

 

     (iii) A color additive.

 

     (iv) Any substance used in accordance with a sanction or

 

approval granted before the enactment of the food additives

 

amendment of 1958, Public Law 85-929, 72 Stat. 1784, pursuant to

 

the federal act, the poultry products inspection act, Public Law

 

85-172, 71 Stat. 441, 21 U.S.C. 451 to 471, or the federal meat

 

inspection act of March 4, 1907, chapter 2907, 34 Stat. 1258.


 

     (g) "Food code" means food code, 1999 recommendations of the

 

food and drug administration of the United States public health

 

service that regulates the design, construction, management, and

 

operation of certain food establishments.

 

     (h) "Food concession" means a food storage, preparation, or

 

dispensing operation at a state or county fair.

 

     (i) "Food establishment" means an operation where food is

 

processed, packed, canned, preserved, frozen, fabricated, stored,

 

prepared, served, sold, or offered for sale. Food establishment

 

includes a food processing plant, a food service establishment, and

 

a retail grocery. Food establishment does not include any of the

 

following:

 

     (i) A charitable, religious, fraternal, or other nonprofit

 

organization operating a home-prepared baked goods sale or serving

 

only home-prepared food in connection with its meetings or as part

 

of a fund-raising event.

 

     (ii) An inpatient food operation located in a health facility

 

or agency subject to licensure under article 17 of the public

 

health code, MCL 333.20101 to 333.22260.

 

     (iii) A food operation located in a prison, jail, state mental

 

health institute, boarding house, fraternity or sorority house,

 

convent, or other facility where the facility is the primary

 

residence for the occupants and the food operation is limited to

 

serving meals to the occupants as part of their living arrangement.

 

     (j) "Food processing plant" means a food establishment that

 

processes, manufactures, packages, labels, or stores food and does

 

not provide food directly to a consumer. Food processing plant


 

includes any maple syrup producer.

 

     (k) "Food service establishment" means a fixed or mobile

 

restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short order cafe, luncheonette,

 

grill, tearoom, sandwich shop, soda fountain, tavern, bar, cocktail

 

lounge, nightclub, drive-in, industrial feeding establishment,

 

private organization serving the public, rental hall, catering

 

kitchen, delicatessen, theater, commissary, or similar place in

 

which food or drink is prepared for direct consumption through

 

service on the premises or elsewhere, and any other eating or

 

drinking establishment or operation where food is served or

 

provided for the public. Food service establishment does not

 

include any of the following:

 

     (i) A motel that serves continental breakfasts only.

 

     (ii) A food concession.

 

     (iii) A bed and breakfast that has 10 or fewer sleeping rooms,

 

including sleeping rooms occupied by the innkeeper, 1 or more of

 

which are available for rent to transient tenants.

 

     (iv) A bed and breakfast that has at least 11 but fewer than 15

 

rooms for rent, if the bed and breakfast serves continental

 

breakfasts only.

 

     (v) A child care organization regulated under 1973 PA 116, MCL

 

722.111 to 722.128, unless the establishment is carrying out an

 

operation considered by the director to be a food service

 

establishment.

 

     (l) "Food warehouse" means a food establishment that stores or

 

distributes prepackaged food for wholesaling.