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Exhibit 579

Senate Bill 25 (89th Legislature, Regular Session), enrolled

Exhibit 579 ยท State statute

Senate Bill 25 (89th Legislature, Regular Session), enrolled

WARNING: This product contains an ingredient that is not recommended for human consumption by the appropriate authority in Australia, Canada, the European Union, or the United Kingdom.

Section 9 (Health & Safety Code 431.0815) requires a warning label on food containing any of 44 listed ingredients. It is a labeling law, not a GRAS rule. Section 431.0817 makes the label requirement inoperative for an ingredient once FDA or USDA prohibits it, conditions its use, or 'determines an ingredient or class of ingredients is safe.'

Source
State of Texas
Date
Signed June 2025; effective 1 September 2025
Quoted from
Tex. Health & Safety Code sec. 431.0815(b)(1)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00025F.htm
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding AGR-1.14
Primary record California's AB 1264 (approved 8 October 2025) defines ultraprocessed food for school food by reference to a substance in FDA's Substances Added to Food database with one of eight listed technical effects, plus a nutrient threshold or a listed sweetener. On 11 February 2026 a federal court enjoined enforcement of Texas SB 25's warning-label requirement against four trade associations, including the Consumer Brands Association, and their members.