Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 560
       
       
        
       By Senator Martin
       
       
       
       
       
       33-00353-25                                            2025560__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to chemical additives in food
    3         products; creating s. 500.454, F.S.; beginning on a
    4         specified date, prohibiting a food establishment from
    5         manufacturing, selling, or distributing food that
    6         contains specified chemical additives; providing
    7         penalties; providing an effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10  
   11         Section 1. Section 500.454, Florida Statutes, is created to
   12  read:
   13         500.454 Prohibited chemical additives; penalties.—
   14         (1) Beginning January 1, 2028, a food establishment may not
   15  manufacture, sell, or distribute a food that contains any of the
   16  following chemical additives:
   17         (a) Brominated vegetable oil.
   18         (b) Potassium bromate.
   19         (c) Propylparaben.
   20         (d) Red dye 3.
   21         (e) Blue dye 1.
   22         (f) Yellow dye 5.
   23         (g) Benzidine.
   24         (h) Butylated hydroxyanisole.
   25         (i) Butylated hydroxytoluene.
   26         (2) A food establishment that violates subsection (1) is
   27  subject to an administrative fine in the Class II category
   28  pursuant to s. 570.971 for a first violation. For a second or
   29  subsequent violation of subsection (1), such establishment is
   30  subject to an administrative fine in the Class III category
   31  pursuant to that section.
   32         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.