Truth in Buffalo Labeling Act

Truth in Buffalo Labeling Act

This bill prohibits the sale of food that contains water buffalo and is labeled as buffalo unless the specific term used in the labeling is water buffalo.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5818 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5818

 To provide clarification regarding the common or usual name for bison 
and compliance with section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
                      Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2020

  Mr. Perlmutter (for himself and Mr. Long) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide clarification regarding the common or usual name for bison 
and compliance with section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
                      Act, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Truth in Buffalo Labeling Act''.

SEC. 2. COMMON OR USUAL NAME FOR NORTH AMERICAN BISON.

    Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
343) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(z)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), if it is a food that is or 
contains any animal in the genus Bubalus and the labeling uses the term 
`buffalo' as a common or usual name for the food, unless the term used 
in the labeling of that food is `water buffalo'.
    ``(2) Subparagraph (1) shall not be construed as prohibiting the 
use of the term `buffalo' as a common or usual name for the animal 
Bison bison bison (commonly known as the plains bison), or the animal 
Bison bison athabascae (commonly known as the wood bison).''.
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