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Search Results: keywords:"food safety"

H. R. 7563 — To strengthen compliance with the FDA Food Traceability Rule, to enhance the FDA foodborne illness outbreak investigation process, and for other purposes.
March 06, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:888
H.R. 7563 aims to improve how foodborne illness outbreaks are investigated by the FDA and strengthen compliance with FDA food traceability rules. It proposes amending existing food safety laws to ease certain recordkeeping requirements and conduct pilot projects to assess the...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 7563 is a plan to help the people in charge of food safety do better at finding out where germs come from when people get sick from food. It wants to try new ways to keep track of food and figure out what's stopping good communication about food between important places, like stores and restaurants.
S. 4303 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of food and limit the presence of contaminants in infant and toddler food, and for other purposes.
May 09, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:4,374
S. 4303, titled the "Baby Food Safety Act of 2024," seeks to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure food safety, particularly in infant and toddler food, by establishing limits on harmful contaminants such as lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic. It mandates...
Simple Explanation
The "Baby Food Safety Act of 2024" is a rule to make sure baby foods are safe by checking for yucky stuff like lead and other bad things; it tells food makers to test their foods to keep them safe for babies and toddlers.
H. R. 7130 — To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to ensure that consumers can make informed decisions in choosing between meat and poultry products and imitation meat and imitation poultry products, and for other purposes.
January 30, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:1,829
H.R. 7130 seeks to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to ensure that labels on food products clearly distinguish between real meat and poultry products, imitation meat and poultry, and cell-cultured products. It defines "imitation"...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 7130 is a bill that wants food labels to clearly say if something is real meat, fake meat, or grown in a lab, so people know what they're buying. This helps everyone make better choices when picking food.
S. 5084 — To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to ban foods with contaminants above safe levels in or on final products served in school meals, and for other purposes.
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September 18, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:5,335
The Safe School Meals Act of 2024, introduced as S. 5084, aims to ensure that school meals in the United States are safe from harmful contaminants. It mandates that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration establish strict...
Simple Explanation
The Safe School Meals Act of 2024 is a plan to make sure the food in schools is really safe by checking that it doesn’t have too much bad stuff like harmful chemicals or metals, and by getting food from places that are proven to be clean.
H. R. 8385 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of food and limit the presence of contaminants in infant and toddler food, and for other purposes.
May 14, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:4,366
The Baby Food Safety Act of 2024 aims to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to enhance the safety of infant and toddler foods. It requires the establishment of contaminant limits for substances like lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic in these foods, along with...
Simple Explanation
The Baby Food Safety Act of 2024 wants to make sure that the food babies and toddlers eat is safe by setting rules to limit bad stuff like lead and mercury. It also means factories making this food have to check their products to keep them clean and safe.
H. R. 7974 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require labeling of food products containing insects, and for other purposes.
April 12, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:257
H. R. 7974 aims to change the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure that any food products containing insects, insect parts, or products derived from insects must clearly indicate this on the front label. The bill requires that this labeling be done in a prominent...
Simple Explanation
H. R. 7974 wants all food packages to say on the front if they have bugs or anything made from bugs, so people know what they're eating. This new rule will start 180 days after it becomes law, but there are still questions about how it's going to work and what happens if someone doesn't follow the rule.
S. 4745 — To establish the Federal Food Administration to protect the public health by ensuring the safety of food, preventing foodborne illness, maintaining safety reviews and reassessments of food additives, reducing the prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases, enforcing pesticide residue tolerances, improving the surveillance of foodborne pathogens, and for other purposes.
July 23, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:2,146
S. 4745 proposes the creation of the Federal Food Administration within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ensure food safety and public health. The bill aims to prevent foodborne illnesses, conduct safety reviews of food additives, enforce pesticide residue...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants to create a new group to make sure the food we eat is safe, so people don’t get sick. It wants to take food out of its current group and give it its own special team to watch over everything, like checking the food and making sure it doesn't have bad stuff in it.
S. 4282 — To prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing any rule or regulation requiring the mandatory use of electronic identification eartags on cattle and bison.
May 08, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:163
S. 4282 aims to prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from enforcing any requirements for mandatory electronic identification eartags on cattle and bison. This legislation seeks to ensure that livestock owners are not compelled to use these eartags under any new regulations....
Simple Explanation
The bill says that no one can make people put special electronic tags on cows and bison to keep track of them, even though using these tags might help figure out where animals have been and if they're healthy.
H. R. 9027 — Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes.
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July 12, 2024
Status:Reported in House
Congress:118
Words:28,753
The bill H.R. 9027 is designed to allocate funds for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, to support programs related to Agriculture, Rural Development, the Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies in the United States. It includes appropriations for a variety...
Simple Explanation
This bill is like a big money plan that gives out money to help farmers, make sure our food is safe to eat, make homes nicer in the countryside, and help with food programs. But it also has rules that say "no" to some things, like changing certain food rules or using certain building materials, which might make some people unhappy.
H. R. 9099 — To establish the Federal Food Administration to protect the public health by ensuring the safety of food, preventing foodborne illness, maintaining safety reviews and reassessments of food additives, reducing the prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases, enforcing pesticide residue tolerances, improving the surveillance of foodborne pathogens, and for other purposes.
July 23, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:2,129
H.R. 9099 proposes the creation of a new agency called the Federal Food Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services. This agency would focus on ensuring food safety, preventing foodborne illnesses, and managing food-related regulations and inspections. It intends to...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants to create a new team called the Federal Food Administration to make sure all the food we eat is safe and doesn't make us sick. This team would take over the job of checking our food from another group that used to handle both food and medicine.
H. R. 8994 — To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to remove nonambulatory pigs from the United States food system, to establish an online portal for confidential complaints, and for other purposes.
July 11, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:4,770
The H. R. 8994 bill, also known as the "Pigs and Public Health Act," aims to improve standards for handling nonambulatory pigs, which are pigs unable to walk or stand unassisted, to prevent them from entering the U.S. food system. It prohibits the use of certain drugs on...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants to make sure sick pigs that can't walk on their own don't end up as food and also sets up a special website where people can safely tell if they've seen unsafe pig practices.
S. 4562 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the practice of feeding excrement to farm animals, and for other purposes.
June 17, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:267
S. 4562 aims to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by making it illegal to add excrement intentionally to animal food for farm animals. The act clarifies that using manure as a crop fertilizer does not count as intentional addition for this purpose. The bill is...
Simple Explanation
The NO SHT Act wants to make sure farm animals don't eat poop on purpose, because that's not safe for them. It says it's okay to use poop as plant food on farms, but it means let's not feed it to animals by mistake.
S. 5103 — To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a strategic plan for the Human Foods Program of the Food and Drug Administration and the food functions of the Office of Inspections and Investigations, and for other purposes.
September 19, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:1,334
The Food and Drug Administration Foods Accountability Act requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create a strategic plan for the Human Foods Program of the FDA by September 30, 2025, and update it every four years. This plan will focus on food safety,...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants a big helper in charge of health to make a plan by next year to keep our food safe and tasty. Every few years, they'll check and update this plan to make sure it works well and say how it's going.
H. R. 9443 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to share food safety information with State, local, Tribal, and Territorial authorities, and for other purposes.
August 30, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:771
H. R. 9443 aims to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to share food safety information with State, local, Tribal, and Territorial authorities. The bill specifies what types of unredacted information can be...
Simple Explanation
H. R. 9443 is a proposed rule that would let health officials share important food safety information with local leaders, like how to stop food sickness, but they need to be careful not to share too much or mishandle the data.
H. R. 7588 — To direct the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, to reassess certain food ingredients used in the preparation of meat, poultry, and egg products, and for other purposes.
March 07, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:436
H.R. 7588, titled the “Agricultural Food Chemical Reassessment Act of 2024,” aims to have the Secretary of Agriculture, via the Food Safety and Inspection Service, review certain food ingredients used in meat, poultry, and egg products by the end of 2026. The bill requires an...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 7588 is a plan for the government to check if certain things added to meat, chicken, and eggs to make them last longer or taste better are safe to eat. They want to finish this check by the end of 2026 and change the rules if needed.
S. 4728 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of food and limit the presence of contaminants in infant and toddler food, and for other purposes.
July 11, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:4,460
S. 4728, known as the Baby Food Safety Act of 2024, aims to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of food by limiting contaminants in infant and toddler foods. The bill requires the Secretary to establish limits on toxic elements like lead,...
Simple Explanation
The Baby Food Safety Act of 2024 is like a set of rules to help keep baby food safe by making sure there aren't any bad things like lead or mercury in it. It asks people who make baby food to test it and make sure it is safe to eat.
H. R. 8687 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem adulterated food containing certain color additives, and for other purposes.
June 11, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:380
H. R. 8687, known as the "Do or Dye Act," aims to change the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by classifying food with certain color additives as adulterated. This means that specific color additives, including Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5, and Yellow No. 6, along with any...
Simple Explanation
H. R. 8687, called the "Do or Dye Act," is about stopping the use of certain colors in foods, like Red No. 40 and Yellow No. 5, because people think they might not be safe to eat. If this rule happens, foods with those colors won't be allowed anymore.

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