HB 507 — An Act providing for the testing and labeling of baby food and for prohibited levels of toxic heavy metals in baby food; and imposing duties on the Department of Agriculture.

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5073672 2025THE INTRODUCEDGENERAL BYASSEMBLY HANBIDGE,OF HILL-EVANS,PENNSYLVANIA GIRAL,HOUSE PIELLI,BILL HOWARD,Session CIRESI, SANCHEZ, SHUSTERMAN, FREEMAN, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, O'MARA, FLEMING, WEBSTER, CERRATO AND GREEN, FEBRUARY 5, 2025 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND UTILITIES, FEBRUARY 5, 2025 AN ACT Providing for the testing and labeling of babyNo. food and for prohibited levels of toxic heavy metals in baby food;

507 2025 INTRODUCED BY HANBIDGE, HILL-EVANS, GIRAL, PIELLI, HOWARD, CIRESI, SANCHEZ, SHUSTERMAN, FREEMAN, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, O'MARA, FLEMING, WEBSTER, CERRATO, GREEN, SCOTT AND TAKAC, FEBRUARY 5, 2025 AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND UTILITIES, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 23, 2026 AN ACT Providing for the testing and labeling of baby food and for imposing duties on the Department of Health.Health AGRICULTURE.d <-- The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

"Department." The Department of Health AGRICULTURE of the <-- Commonwealth.

"Secretary." The Secretary of Health AGRICULTURE of the <-- Commonwealth.

The department shall test a representative sample of each batch of baby food manufactured in this Commonwealth for the presence of inorganic TOTAL arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury or <-- other toxic heavy metal.

(1) For inorganic TOTAL arsenic, 10 parts per billion.

<-- (2) For lead, five parts per billion.

(b) Federal limits.-- (1) If at any time the United States Food and Drug Administration sets a limit on inorganic TOTAL arsenic, lead, <-- cadmium or mercury in baby food that is lower than the limit specified in subsection (a), the department shall adopt the lower Federal limit.

(2) If at any time the United States Food and Drug Administration sets a limit on a toxic heavy metal, other than inorganic TOTAL arsenic, lead, cadmium or mercury, in <-- baby food, the department shall adopt the Federal limit.

All baby food that has been tested by the department under this act must be affixed with a label noting the levels of 20250HB0507PN3672 - 2 - inorganic TOTAL arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury found in the <-- representative sample from that batch and the presence of other toxic heavy metals.

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