Section 2500-I. Child food choking prevention

1. The department shall
  establish criteria for determining which foods  and  food  products  may
  pose a significant choking risk for children in various age groups.
    2.  The  department  shall  conduct  an  ongoing  public awareness and
  education program under section two hundred seven  of  this  chapter  on
  choking  risks,  precautions  and life-saving procedures, including, but
  not limited to, listing on its internet website information that assists
  members of the public  in  locating  infant  and  child  cardiopulmonary
  resuscitation classes.
    3.  The  department shall produce and distribute educational materials
  on food choking risks,  precautions  and  life-saving  procedures.  Such
  materials  shall  be made available to child care centers, pediatricians
  and nursery,  elementary  and  secondary  schools  for  distribution  to
  persons  in  parental  relation  to children, and to hospitals, birthing
  centers and other appropriate health care providers for distribution  to
  maternity  patients.  In  addition,  such materials shall be provided to
  health care professionals engaged in the care and treatment of  children
  for  distribution to such children and persons in parental relation. The
  department  shall  also  provide  information  on  food  choking  risks,
  precautions  and  life-saving  procedures  on  the department's internet
  website. No provision of this subdivision shall be  deemed  to  prohibit
  the  utilization  and  distribution  of  educational  materials relating
  thereto produced by any public, private or governmental entity, in  lieu
  of the department's production of such materials.
    4.  The department shall periodically review available data on choking
  incidents in children and  update  the  information  on  choking  risks,
  precautionary  measures  and  life-saving  procedures  provided  in  its
  educational materials and on its internet website, as appropriate.
    5. The department shall annually report, on or before  January  first,
  to  the  governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker
  of  the  assembly  on  the  implementation  of  this  section  and   any
  recommendations for furthering the purpose of this section.
    6.  Implementation  of this section shall be contingent upon and shall
  be conducted within appropriations made therefor.