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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Trans Fats - Exemption for Retail Bakeries
FOR the purpose of exempting certain bakeries from the provisions governing food containing trans fat; conforming certain language; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the regulation of food containing trans fat.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Health
Section(s) 6-507
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)
SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:
Baltimore City Revised Code
Article - Health
ยง 6-507. Trans fats prohibited.
(a) "Food containing trans fat" defined.
(1) "Food containing trans fat" means, except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, any food that:
(i) is labeled as containing vegetable shortening, margarine, or any kind of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil;
(ii) lists vegetable shortening, margarine, or any kind of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil as an ingredient; or
(iii) contains vegetable shortening, margarine, or any kind of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.
(2) "Food containing trans fat" does not include food with a nutrition facts label or other documentation from the...
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