REAL Beef Act

Requiring Easy and Accurate Labeling of Beef Act or the REAL Beef Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require a package or other container of meat at the final point of sale that contains low-temperature rendered product (lean finely textured beef) to bear a label stating that it contains such product.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4346 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4346

To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act so that labels on packages of 
   meat include a statement on whether the meat contains lean finely 
                             textured beef.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2012

Ms. Pingree of Maine (for herself, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Kucinich, Ms. Lee 
of California, Ms. Norton, Mr. Holt, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Schiff, Mr. 
 Lewis of Georgia, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Van Hollen) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act so that labels on packages of 
   meat include a statement on whether the meat contains lean finely 
                             textured beef.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Requiring Easy and Accurate Labeling 
of Beef Act'' or the ``REAL Beef Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUDING A STATEMENT ON WHETHER MEAT CONTAINS LEAN FINELY 
              TEXTURED BEEF ON LABELS.

    Section 1(n) of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601(n)) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (11), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (12), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following paragraph:
            ``(13) if in a package or other container at the final 
        point of sale it contains low-temperature rendered product, 
        also known as lean finely textured beef (as such terms are 
        defined by the Secretary), unless it bears a label stating that 
        it contains such product.''.
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