{"id":193798,"date":"2025-06-11T20:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=193798"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:52:30","slug":"bill-addresses-imitation-meat-egg-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/bill-addresses-imitation-meat-egg-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill addresses imitation meat, egg products"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; State Representatives Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) and Jack Daniels (R-New Franklin) have announced that the Ohio House has passed House Bill 10 &#8211; legislation to protect Ohio consumers from inaccurately labeled imitation meat and egg products.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Roy-Klopfenstein-1-23-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162418\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roy Klopfenstein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>House Bill 10 will require companies to clearly brand food as either an agricultural food product or manufactured food product, removing companies\u2019 ability to sell misbranded manufactured or fabricated meat or egg products as legitimate meat or egg products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;HB 10 protects Ohio consumers by ensuring label transparency when they go to the grocery store to buy meat for their families,&#8221; Klopfenstein said. &#8220;Every Ohioan deserves to know what is in their meat. I want to extend a special thanks to the hardworking Ohio farmers who supply the dinner tables, school cafeterias, and restaurants across the Buckeye State.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are taking a clear step toward transparency in food labeling and protecting Ohio\u2019s consumers and agricultural producers,\u201d said Rep. Daniels. \u201cThis bill ensures that families know exactly what they\u2019re putting on the dinner table, while supporting the integrity of our state&#8217;s meat and egg industries. I\u2019m proud to stand with Ohio\u2019s farmers\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House Bill 10 now goes to the Senate for further consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; State Representatives Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) and Jack Daniels (R-New Franklin) have announced that the Ohio House has passed House Bill 10 &#8211; legislation to protect Ohio consumers from inaccurately labeled imitation meat and egg products.\u00a0 House Bill 10 will require companies to clearly brand food as either an agricultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 10:23:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193802,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193798\/revisions\/193802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}