New York allergen label law, Nov 12, 2026: a pack-station staff clip

New York's allergen labeling law for prepackaged food takes effect on November 12, 2026, one year after the governor signed it, and the label itself is not a job for an image model. What Sume can do is smaller and safe: caption a phone clip of your pack station so every shift sees the same rule, for a flat $0.20 per language.

The details below come from the bill text on the New York State Senate site, read on 2026-10-13. This is not legal advice, and the page does not say which agency enforces the law, so check with your county health department and counsel about how it applies to your shop.

What the bill text says

Senate bill S5381A was signed on November 12, 2025, as chapter 494, and its text says it takes effect one year after it becomes law. That is November 12, 2026. It adds a duty that every food establishment label all prepackaged food with a written notification, on the package or on a label attached to it, that identifies any ingredient that is a major food allergen.

"Prepackaged food" is food that is prepared, prepacked and offered or sold to customers on the same premises. The definition leaves out unpacked food and anything packaged after a customer places an order. So the muffin wrapped at 6 a.m. and sold at noon is in; the sandwich built and wrapped for a customer at the counter is out.

What a clip can and cannot do

The allergens on a label must come from your recipe records and your suppliers' ingredient lists. Do not ask an image or video model to invent them, and do not use a generated image as a label: a model can misspell a word or drop a line, and a wrong allergen on a package is the failure the law exists to prevent.

A clip trains people to do the checking. Film the real station on a phone: the shelf of wrapped goods, the label printer, the recipe binder. Then burn the steps onto it, so the sound can stay off in a loud kitchen.

How do I caption it in English and Spanish?

Send the clip's public HTTPS URL to video captions with authored cues. A kitchen clip often has noise but no speech, and without cues a speech-less clip fails with caption_no_speech. Cues skip transcription and burn your exact text at the times you give.

Run a second job with the same video and Spanish text if your crew uses it. Have a bilingual staff member write that text; Sume burns what you send and does not check a translation.

{
  "video_url": "https://example-bakery.com/media/pack-station.mp4",
  "style": "slam",
  "cues": [
    { "text": "Packed here and sold here?\nIt needs an allergen label", "start": 0, "end": 5 },
    { "text": "Check the recipe card:\nmilk, eggs, fish, shellfish", "start": 5, "end": 10 },
    { "text": "tree nuts, peanuts, wheat,\nsesame, soybeans", "start": 10, "end": 15 },
    { "text": "Label goes on the package\nbefore it hits the shelf", "start": 15, "end": 20 }
  ]
}

What it costs

Each accepted captions job reserves a flat $0.20 for a clip up to 60 seconds, per the rate card. English plus Spanish is $0.40; a second location with its own footage doubles that. Send an Idempotency-Key for each language and follow the polling steps in Jobs and results.

For the customer side, a menu video that burns in an allergen line is a different job, covered in allergen line on a holiday menu video.