S 4283: Requires the commissioner of health to establish means of educating proprietors and employees of public eating establishments about food allergens.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4283 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, ADDABBO, BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to food allergen information The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading of section 1352-b of the public health 2 law, as added by chapter 613 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 Public eating establishments; first aid instructions concerning food 5 lodged in throat; food allergen information; liability. 6 § 2. Subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 of section 1352-b of the public health 7 law are renumbered subdivisions 4, 5 and 6 and a new subdivision 3 is 8 added to read as follows: 9 3. Food allergen information for proprietors and employees of public 10 eating establishments. a. The commissioner shall adopt and approve 11 information to educate proprietors and employees of public eating estab- 12 lishments about the dangers of severe food allergens to food allergic 13 individuals. Such information shall include but not be limited to: the 14 need to inform customers of the presence of such allergens in food or 15 meals on the menu or through verbal descriptions; the possibility of 16 cross-contamination of a food with an allergen during food preparation 17 and the need to inform customers of that possibility; and, the symptoms 18 of severe allergic reactions to food and the need for rapid response to 19 such emergencies. 20 b. The commissioner shall, as soon as practicable, supply to the 21 proprietor of every public eating establishment in this state such 22 adopted and approved information and develop regulations for distrib- 23 ution or posting of such information. 24 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 25 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amend- 26 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 27 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 28 completed on before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08041-01-5