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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the |
| 5 | | Artificial Trans Fat Restriction Act.
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| 6 | | Section 5. Definitions.
For the purposes of this Act:
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| 7 | | "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
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| 8 | | "Food containing artificial trans fat" means a food that is |
| 9 | | labeled as, lists an ingredient as, or has vegetable |
| 10 | | shortening, margarine, or any kind of partially hydrogenated |
| 11 | | vegetable oil. "Food containing artificial trans fat" does not |
| 12 | | include a food that the nutrition facts label or other |
| 13 | | documentation from the manufacturer of which lists the trans |
| 14 | | fat content of the food as less than 0.5 grams per serving.
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| 15 | | "Food facility" means an entity that prepares, packages, |
| 16 | | serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human consumption |
| 17 | | at the retail level. "Food facility" does not include any |
| 18 | | entity operated by local or State government that prepares, |
| 19 | | packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human |
| 20 | | consumption. "Food facility" does not include any entity |
| 21 | | operated by a private school or public school district that |
| 22 | | prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food |
| 23 | | for human consumption.
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| 1 | | Section 10. Legislative purpose. It is the goal of the |
| 2 | | General Assembly that any entity operated by local or State |
| 3 | | government that prepares, packages, serves, vends, or |
| 4 | | otherwise provides food for human consumption, eliminate the |
| 5 | | purchase, distribution, preparation, service, sale, or use of |
| 6 | | foods containing artificial trans fat by January 1, 2016.
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| 7 | | It is the goal of the General Assembly that any entity |
| 8 | | operated by a private school or public school district that |
| 9 | | prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food |
| 10 | | for human consumption, eliminate the purchase, distribution, |
| 11 | | preparation, service, sale, or use of foods containing |
| 12 | | artificial trans fat by January 1, 2016.
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| 13 | | Section 15. Artificial trans fat restriction; food |
| 14 | | facility. Beginning on January 1, 2013, no food containing |
| 15 | | artificial trans fat may be served by a food facility or used |
| 16 | | in the preparation of food within a food facility. This |
| 17 | | prohibition shall not apply to food containing only naturally |
| 18 | | occurring trans fat; food sold or served in a manufacturer's |
| 19 | | original sealed package; free food samples made available or |
| 20 | | served to customers in food facilities, but that are only |
| 21 | | available for sale in the manufacturer's original sealed |
| 22 | | package; or food repackaged from the manufacturer's original |
| 23 | | sealed package.
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