Agricultural Food Chemical Reassessment Act of 2024

Agricultural Food Chemical Reassessment Act of 2024

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to determine the fitness for human consumption of certain food ingredients used in meat, poultry, and egg products. FSIS must initiate any rulemaking based on the determination.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7588 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2024

 Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Khanna, and Ms. DeLauro) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
      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.

    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 ``Agricultural Food Chemical 
Reassessment Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. REASSESSMENT OF INGREDIENTS USED IN THE PREPARATION OF MEAT, 
              POULTRY, AND EGG PRODUCTS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than December 31, 2026, the Secretary of 
Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Food Safety and 
Inspection Service, shall--
            (1) determine whether each covered food ingredient would 
        make unfit for human food--
                    (A) a meat food product, under section 1(m)(2)(A) 
                of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
                601(m)(2)(A));
                    (B) a poultry product, under section 4(g)(2)(A) of 
                the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
                453(g)(2)(A)); or
                    (C) an egg product, under section 4(a)(2)(A) of the 
                Egg Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 1033(a)(2)(A)); 
                and
            (2) initiate any rulemaking to amend appropriate 
        regulations based on each determination under paragraph (1).
    (b) Covered Food Ingredient Defined.--In this section, the term 
``covered food ingredient'' means--
            (1) butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA);
            (2) butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT);
            (3) cetylpyridinium chloride;
            (4) sodium aluminum phosphate;
            (5) sodium nitrite;
            (6) sulfuric acid; and
            (7) titanium dioxide.
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