Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety Act

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2078 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2078

 To prohibit the sale of food that is, or contains, unsafe poppy seeds.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2019

  Mr. Womack introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the sale of food that is, or contains, unsafe poppy seeds.

    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 ``Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Stephen Hacala was a 25-year-old from Fayetteville, 
        Arkansas, who was dearly loved by family and friends when he 
        died from morphine intoxication caused by consumption of 
        contaminated poppy seeds.
            (2) More than a dozen people in the United States have been 
        confirmed to have died from morphine overdoses from 
        contaminated poppy seeds.
    (b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this Act to prohibit the 
distribution and sale of contaminated poppy seeds in order to prevent 
harm, addiction, and further deaths from morphine-laced poppy seeds.

SEC. 3. UNSAFE POPPY SEEDS AS ADULTERANTS IN FOOD.

    Section 301 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
331) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(fff) Selling, or offering to sell, directly to consumers a food 
that is or contains poppy seeds, including concentrates, metabolites, 
constituents, or extracts of poppy seeds, that contain levels of 
morphine, codeine, or other alkaloid compounds that may render the food 
injurious to health.''.
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