(a) For the purposes of this section:

(1) “Person” means any individual, partnership, firm, association, limited liability company or corporation;

(2) “Sulfiting agent” means any sulfur dioxide, sodium sulfite, sodium bisulfite, potassium bisulfite, sodium metabisulfite or potassium metabisulfite;

(3) “Manufacturer” means any person, firm or corporation which produces or grows food and which packages such food for resale or distribution.

(b) No person who sells, offers for sale or distributes food, other than a manufacturer of food, shall add any sulfiting agent to any food sold, offered for sale or distributed in this state.

(c) Any retailer who displays, sells or offers for sale any bulk display of unpackaged food, including food displayed in any salad bar, which food contains any sulfiting agent, shall prominently display a sign which shall read as follows:

THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS A SULFITING AGENT. SULFITES MAY CAUSE AN ALLERGIC REACTION IN CERTAIN PERSONS, PARTICULARLY ASTHMATICS.

Each letter on such sign shall be not less than one-half inch in height and shall be of the same type, style and color, which color shall contrast clearly with the background of such sign.

(d) Any manufacturer who adds a sulfiting agent to any food or to any ingredient in any food, which sulfiting agent is present in the finished food product, shall include such sulfiting agent as an ingredient of the food in the ingredient statement of the label attached to such food product. Such ingredient statement shall indicate the name of the sulfiting agent and the function of such sulfiting agent.

(P.A. 86-322, S. 1; P.A. 95-79, S. 76, 189.)

History: P.A. 95-79 amended Subsec. (a) to redefine “person” to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995.