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Texas Senate Bill 25, enacted in the 89th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, is the broader “Making Texas Healthy Again” act; one of its provisions requires manufacturers of food products offered for retail sale in Texas to disclose any of 44 listed ingredients via a scannable code on the package. The statute generally took effect September 1, 2025; the labeling provisions are enforceable for products manufactured on or after January 1, 2027.
Not legal advice. This summary is provided for engineering and operations teams configuring Closient. The statutory text controls. Verify the ingredient list, effective dates, and exemption scope against the enrolled bill and consult Texas counsel before relying on this page for compliance.

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What the statute requires

Under SB 25 (codified at Tex. Health & Safety Code §431.0816 — verify codification against the enrolled text), a food product offered for retail sale in Texas that contains any of the listed ingredients must, on or after the labeling effective date, bear a label that includes:
  1. A scannable code — URL, QR code, barcode, or other electronic means — on the package, that
  2. Resolves to information identifying the presence of the listed ingredient for the product
The Texas statute is broader in form than LA SB 14 — it permits “URL, QR code, barcode, or other electronic means” rather than specifying QR alone. It does not contain LA SB 14’s explicit “control of the manufacturer” phrasing, but the practical effect is the same: the scannable code must resolve to disclosure content the manufacturer is responsible for. See Manufacturer Control for why a neutral resolver still satisfies this in spirit and in practice.

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The 44-ingredient list

The Texas list overlaps substantially with Louisiana SB 14 but is not identical. The three ingredients that appear on the Texas list and not on the Louisiana list are highlighted below.
The list below is a working summary for engineering reference. The enrolled bill text is the controlling source — verify every entry before treating any list as canonical, and re-verify after each legislative session in case of amendments.
#IngredientCategoryTX-only
1Potassium bromateDough conditioner
2PropylparabenPreservative
3Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)Antioxidant preservative
4Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)Antioxidant preservative
5Brominated vegetable oil (BVO)Emulsifier
6Red Dye 3 (FD&C Red No. 3)Color additive
7Red Dye 40 (FD&C Red No. 40)Color additive
8Yellow Dye 5 (FD&C Yellow No. 5, tartrazine)Color additive
9Yellow Dye 6 (FD&C Yellow No. 6)Color additive
10Blue Dye 1 (FD&C Blue No. 1)Color additive
11Blue Dye 2 (FD&C Blue No. 2)Color additive
12Green Dye 3 (FD&C Green No. 3)Color additive
13Citrus Red 2 (FD&C Citrus Red No. 2)Color additive
14Orange BColor additive
15Acesulfame potassium (Ace-K)Artificial sweetener
16AspartameArtificial sweetener
17SaccharinArtificial sweetener
18SucraloseArtificial sweetener
19NeotameArtificial sweetener
20AdvantameArtificial sweetener
21Bleached flourFlour treatment
22Bromated flourFlour treatment
23DATEM (diacetyl tartaric acid ester of monoglycerides)Dough conditionerTX-only
24Calcium bromateDough conditioner
25Potassium aluminum sulfateLeavening / firming agent
26Sodium aluminum sulfateLeavening agent
27Sodium aluminum phosphateLeavening agent
28Aluminum ammonium sulfateLeavening agent
29DiacetylFlavoring
30Propyl gallateAntioxidant preservative
31TBHQ (tert-butylhydroquinone)Antioxidant preservative
32OlestraFat substitute
33Partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs)Fat / trans-fat source
34Sodium nitriteCured-meat preservative
35Sodium nitrateCured-meat preservative
36CarrageenanThickener / emulsifier
37Carboxymethylcellulose (CMC)Emulsifier / thickener
38Polysorbate 60Emulsifier
39Polysorbate 80Emulsifier
40Sodium benzoatePreservative
41Potassium benzoatePreservative
42FicinProteolytic enzymeTX-only
43Titanium dioxideWhitener / color additiveTX-only (banned in EU food use)
44Sulfites (sulfur dioxide / sodium sulfite / sodium bisulfite / potassium metabisulfite)Preservative
The three Texas-specific entries are flagged inline. Note that Texas omits a small number of entries that appear on Louisiana’s list (notably azodicarbonamide); a brand operating in both states should not assume one list is a superset of the other.

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Effective dates

EventDate
SB 25 signed into lawJune 2025
Statute generally effectiveSeptember 1, 2025
Labeling requirements enforceable for products manufactured on or afterJanuary 1, 2027
The Texas labeling deadline is 12 months earlier than Louisiana’s (Jan 1, 2027 vs Jan 1, 2028). Brands shipping to both states should plan to be label-compliant for Texas first; once the resolver-rule wiring is in place for TX, extending to LA is configuration, not engineering.

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Exemptions

The Texas exemptions track LA SB 14 with one notable addition (USDA-regulated meat and poultry, where federal pre-emption applies):
  • Drugs regulated under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
  • Dietary supplements regulated as such under federal law
  • Alcoholic beverages regulated by the TTB / Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
  • Retail-prepared food (food prepared and offered for immediate consumption at retail)
  • Medical foods as defined under federal law
  • USDA-regulated meat and poultry (federal pre-emption under the Federal Meat Inspection Act / Poultry Products Inspection Act)
Verify the exemption scope against the enrolled bill, particularly around the line between “food product” and “dietary supplement” — Texas case law on this distinction may differ from Louisiana’s.

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Enforcement

Enforcement authority sits with the Texas Department of State Health Services and is integrated with the broader Texas food-labeling enforcement framework. Penalties follow the statutory schedule for food-labeling violations under Tex. Health & Safety Code Chapter 431. Consult Texas counsel for the current penalty structure and any rulemaking from DSHS implementing the SB 25 provisions. There is no federal pre-emption argument for the disclosure obligation itself, though specific listed ingredients regulated under USDA jurisdiction (meat and poultry products) are carved out as above.

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Configuring Closient for TX SB 25

The configuration is identical to LA SB 14 — the disclosure surface is the same gs1:ingredientsInfo link type, the QR target is the same https://www.closient.com/01/{gtin} resolver URL. The Texas statute does not require a separate safety-information surface the way Louisiana does, so gs1:safetyInfo is optional for Texas-only compliance but recommended if you are shipping to both states. 
curl -X POST https://www.closient.com/v1/products/{gtin}/resolver-rules \
  -H "X-API-Key: $CLOSIENT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "link_type": "gs1:ingredientsInfo",
    "destination_type": "HOSTED_PAGE",
    "hosted_page_id": "page_ingredients_01HXYZ...",
    "scope": "PRODUCT"
  }'
Texas permits “URL, QR code, barcode, or other electronic means” — if your packaging already carries a non-QR scannable code (a UPC barcode that resolves through your retailer’s app, for instance), that may also satisfy the statute. The safest interpretation, and the one that scales across the copycat wave, is a QR code targeting the resolver URL; see GS1 Digital Link Resolution for the full URI grammar.
Not legal advice. Verify all statutory references and ingredient list entries against the enrolled bill. Consult Texas counsel before relying on this page for compliance.